Re: [Internetgovtech] Transition to the web

[JFC Morfin <[e-mail]>]

At 18:58 15/07/2014, John Curran wrote:
>I expect most of the readers of this list are interested in the coordination
>resulting from these singular IANA registries, as opposed to the frameworks
>for multiple instances of registries with self-organizing communities (but I
>easily could be mistaken.)

Dear John,

you are most probably mistaken. However this your opinion vs. mine. 
The issue is that ICANN is only one of the potential 40.000 ledgers 
(registry of registries) admitted by the DNS, and has no experience 
about such a situation of competition (it should have fostered). When 
you discover yourself 40.000 possible competitors and in addition a 
trillon of independent alternatives, you can hardly organize yourself 
as a monopoly.

ICANN has to present to the NTIA a credible description of its 
project to match a deregulation process where regular competition is 
introduced. No real difference with the 1977/1987 period. The 
question is how the incumbent is to manage its relations with the new 
comers and welcome them.

This question is going to be discussed by 192 other States, by the US 
Congress, by DSPs (digital services providers) all over the planet, 
by users all over the world. The answer will be by 193 digital 
services, privacy, revenue tax legislations around the world.

If you wish IETF/IAB to limit their considerations to the US VGN, let 
be it. But do not be surprised that the 192 other countries consider 
the IETF/IAB as US standardization consulting bodies, read ICP-3, and 
ask ITU to put some order into what is becoming a commercial (cf. RFC 
6852) as a multi-"global community beniffiting humanity" fragmented 
economic system.

jfc