RE: Multiple Roots are "a good thing" - Karl Auerbach
From: woods@weird.com [mailto:woods@weird.com] Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 12:47 PM
In other words, we need an authorized international body with the clout to oversee the whole mess. But then, isn't that what ICANN is supposed to be? (Or would you rather have the ITU oversee the Internet?)
some days I'd rather have the UN do it... :-)
The ITU is a UN body, so is WIPO (a part of WTO).
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 01:03:17PM -0800, Roeland Meyer wrote:
some days I'd rather have the UN do it... :-)
The ITU is a UN body, so is WIPO (a part of WTO).
If WIPO hadn't made some controversial decisions, I would suggest handing over the root-servers to them. They are, AFAIK, the only truly international organization. But that only shifts the problem. The UN is also not an elected body, or at least, it takes several levels of elections to reach them. Regards, bert -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Versatile DNS Services Trilab The Technology People 'SYN! .. SYN|ACK! .. ACK!' - the mating call of the internet
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 01:40:27 +0100, bert hubert said:
But that only shifts the problem. The UN is also not an elected body, or at least, it takes several levels of elections to reach them.
A case can be made that this is a Good Thing. Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 11:36:24PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 01:40:27 +0100, bert hubert said:
But that only shifts the problem. The UN is also not an elected body, or at least, it takes several levels of elections to reach them.
A case can be made that this is a Good Thing.
Until it becomes a Bad Thing, at which point it's impossible to change until it decides it wants to change itself.
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