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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."
one computer scientist used to do this as a part time job. how much of a mountain can we make of a molehill?
To paraphrase Simon&Garfunkel:
Where have you gone Jon Postel?
The networks turn their lonely eyes to you.
What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson?
Jon Postel has left and gone away...
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
I would encourage anyone who is interested in this matter to become active themselves. There are so many issues related to the internet that encourage active participation by anyone who is interested and has something useful to say. If you can, go to RIPE, ARIN, APNIC or IETF-meetings. These organisations also have active mailinglists where your opinion (if intelligent) is valued.
/48 for each, respectively.) And it feels cool to be able to say that I was able to raise my hand for the vote on some of these issues.
r es ting-people/200202/msg00241.html
I had the pleasure of going to two RIPE meetings and had the joy of seeing the RIPE-community decide the new rules on the distrubution of IPv6 space both for Local Internet Registries as well as Internet eXchange Points. (/32 and
Furthermore, Esther Dyson asks the internet community to get involved into the ICANN debate and to pledge to join ICANN-at-Large. You can find that here:
http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/inte
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