[governance] Internet as a commons/ public good

[Riaz K Tayob]

Thanks for this. I seem to recall a different political spin put on 
this. This clarity is welcome as it allows for reasoned engagement, 
whatever the merits. How refreshing.


On 2013/04/26 06:04 PM, Roland Perry wrote:
> In message <7D412841-1A2D-44F8-A7BA-AFEB8D0030B1 at acm.org>, at 06:59:53 
> on Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> writes
>
>> I think one Rooters are people that believe in, above all (almost,)
>> that the Internet must have a single unique root otherwise it will fail.
>
> A proposition which is both absurd and self-evident, depending on 
> where you are standing.
>
> There's no reason why (and let's just talk about DNS - arguably IP 
> addresses are already multi-rooted[3]) there needs to be 'only one 
> ICANN'.
>
> All that would happen is that ICANN2 would have its own DNS tree 
> (hopefully unique in terms of entries, compared to ICANN, otherwise 
> things *will* start to go pear-shaped[1]), and there would be a new[2] 
> 'unique' root pointing at both ICANN and ICANN2, which everyone would 
> use in order to know the location of both of the DNS trees they need 
> to query.
>
> We seem to cope quite well without a single root for email addresses. 
> If I want to email Avri then I'll probably see if she's on Facebook, 
> failing that Linked-In, and failing that Twitter/Skype/etc. Eventually 
> I'll find somewhere that says "yes, I know to get hold of her..." (and 
> if I don't, I'll simply conclude she doesn't want to be contacted, 
> which is debatably more her loss than mine).
>
> [1] That's UK-English for "break".
> [2] And with only two entries, it's not especially complex to maintain,
>     you could just chalk it on a wall somewhere and have people take
>     notes from time to time, in much the same way that the ICANN-world
>     root-server IP addresses don't change that often either.
> [3] You can easily poll round all five RIRs until one of them admits the
>     address you are seeking is one of theirs. No real need to ask
>     IANA first. Some of the RIRs will do that for you already "I don't
>     know about this address, but I know a man(/RIR) who does".


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