[governance] today's Wash Post editorial

[parminder]

On Friday 25 January 2013 08:05 PM, David Conrad wrote:
> Parminder,
> <snip>
>> which I am sure can easily be sorted out by an alternative DNS security architecture.)
> You'd probably first need to convince the root server operators that there is a problem that coming up with an "alternative DNS security architecture" (by which I presume you mean "alternative key management processes") would solve.  This might be challenging.

My general proposal assumes widespread agreement among an overwhelming 
majority of actors in the global IG space that the US oversight of ICANN 
is essentially illegitimate and must be replaced. (This is what I have 
been led to believe from discussions on this list.)

If this assumption holds, I would presume that at least 10 of the 13 
root servers operators (non US gov), whom I consider trustees for global 
Internet public, would be among such actors who ultimately seek global 
legitimacy for a global infrastructures. Indeed, I think even you 
(David) have argued that these non US gov root server operators are 
expected to take decisions in conformity with global public interest, 
and are not tied to the apron strings of the US gov, and its narrow 
interests.

Even if these root server operators are themselves not so democratically 
inclined, I would hope that the moral persuasive power of the mentioned 
overwhelming majority of actors can turn them around towards seeking 
real movement towards what Washington Post described as " remaking the 
current model so that it can serve what has become a global infrastructure".

Perhaps, we should start with a meeting between ICANN and the root 
operators, convened by public interest actors, like maybe the IGC, to 
kickstart the process that my proposal seeks to establish.

regards, parminder
>
> Regards,
> -drc
>
>


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