[governance] NTIA says ICANN "does not meet the requirements" for IANA renewal

[Karl Auerbach]

On 03/11/2012 02:16 PM, Daniel Kalchev wrote:

> About the only way out, with regards to the current situation is if
> ICANN Is brave enough to spin off IANA as separate entity. Failing that,
> all other options will alienate ICANN with it's constituencies and might
> have it split in pieces.

ICANN, in fact internet users, have the power to tell NTIA to go take a
flying leap at a rolling donut.

There is no reason why ICANN can't simply take IANA - or more directly -
a root zone file - private.  There is nothing that says "IANA is a child
owned by the US government".  Nor is there anything that consecrates the
NTIA/Versign root zone file.

That would mean that ICANN would publish its own root zone files, which
would leave the root zone operators with the choice whether to pick up
the ICANN version or the NTIA/Verisign version.

Alternatively ICANN could - and it has plenty of cash flow to do this -
could establish its own constellation of root zone servers.

That latter approach would then leave it up to users, and their agents,
i.e. their ISP's, the decision which root operators to honor.

Most users would not even notice as the change would occur next time
their machine reboots and gets its magic numbers via DHCP.

Moreover, any country or body that wants to bypass ICANN or the ITU or
anybody could follow a similar course.

I doubt that people will explicitly do this.  However, I believe that it
could incrementally happen if the net slowly (and largely imperceptibly
to users) begins to fragment along national and provider lines.

	--karl--




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