Randy Bush on Recent ICANN Proposals

Jodrell writes: "Randy Bush, internet architect and co-chair of the IETF's working group on DNS, has some interesting thoughts on the recent proposals to re-organise ICANN. Randy makes some interesting points about the likely result of allowing Government control into the DNSO, and on the current bloated condition of ICANN."

Comments

Injecting a clue...

[alizard]

Remember that the people in government responsible for the creation and funding of Frankenstein's monster, aka ICANN don't know what a DNS or an IETF is. Is there anybody in Congress who does?

I think it's obvious that it's time to reframe the question of ICANN... from:

their proposal to turn ICANN into The Force in the hopes that with enough of our money and total control over the root, that they may find a mission someday
to
how to reduce it to a useful size and believable function as Randy Bush is proposing.

I think it's time to start taking this seriously. Like to see next year's domain referrals go up $5 a year due to charges passed along to us by any registrar who wants to sell domain names people can connect to? Or $10? Or $100?

Or prices cranked up to the point where only major corporations and governments can afford them? The proposal to expand ICANN is an ambitious one. Ambitious translates to "if this goes through, it's going to cost somebody." WE are the somebody who will wind up paying.

My last comment on ICANN started with the phrase "taxation without representation". The proposed new ICANN doesn't have any public input that ICANN would have to pay attention to.

The view from an "At large" Board member of ICANN

[Gopher971]

One of the at large board members of ICANN, Karl Auerbach was reported as saying that "We've just had the equivalent of the president of the United States abolishing Congress" in response to Stuart Lynn's proposals.

At large board members are chosen by rank and file internet users.

Personally I think this proposal is a threat to the supposed impartiality of ICANN. To allow one third of the board members to be chosen by governments will completely alter the original mandate that ICANN was originally setup.

The BBC Website and the ICCAN Watch website has a much more indepth analysis of the proposed plan.