techno-politics was Re: [governance] Bloomberg - The Overzealous

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

It is of course a complex system and one where change must be slow, steady and incremental

Any Big Bang change of any description would require a sufficiently large stimulus or threat to the stability of the DNS as a whole.  Otherwise, attempting to fix something that is not broken, and that carries very real risks of breaking in unknown ways once tinkered with, is not a matter of political or technical faith.  It is a matter of engineering and architecture, neither of which believes in blind faith as much as it believes in science and mathematics.

Meanwhile, the most active proponents of alternate roots are currently either criminal elements or totalitarian regime censors, rather than advocates of liberty and freedom from US exceptionalism.

--srs (iPad)

On 20-Jan-2013, at 21:26, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:

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>> 2. Work from within the system to change what you feel is wrong with it
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> Yes and no..
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> The systems by and large excludes this, and other topics, as a matter of faith and will not allow work to be done as a matter of political faith.
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> And accountability as well as advocacy often requires doing political, or technical work, in outside groups in order to get the system to take on a challenges the system calls too hard or against our morality.
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> avri
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