[governance] today's Wash Post editorial

[Balleste, Roy]

Any legitimate model of internet governance that sets aside ICANN would probably fail.

Roy Balleste, J.S.D.
Professor of Law
Law Library Director
St. Thomas University
16401 NW 37th Avenue
Miami Gardens, FL 33054  USA
1-305-623-2341


-----Original Message-----
From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of parminder
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 9:53 AM
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
Subject: Re: [governance] today's Wash Post editorial


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
>
>


-------------- next part --------------
____________________________________________________________
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
     governance at lists.igcaucus.org
To be removed from the list, visit:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing

For all other list information and functions, see:
     http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance
To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/

Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t