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IP: Decentalization proposal for ICANN Evolution and Reform
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 06:15:50 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: "James Love" <james.love () cptech org> Reply-To: "James Love" <james.love () cptech org> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 05:54:19 -0500 This is a specific proposal for ICANN decentralization. 1. Get ICANN out of the protoccal and numbering business, and focus on the names issues, where the lack of an accepted decision making structure is the most problematic. Let the ASO and PSO be independent and sort our their own issues. 2. Begin with an ICANN/DNSO, I'll call ICANN-1, that is particularly US Centric, and according to observors, tends to do, for better or worse, the following things. a. Embraces US type instincts on free expression and libertarian type values. b. Embraces US style approaches to protection of consumers and in areas where it has a responsibility, trademark issues. c. Tends to favor (sometimes) firms that give money to US politicians or promises jobs to former US government officials (is influenced by the particular US styles of corruption). 3. Allow new regional ICANN spinoffs to be created, under the "go forth and multiply" theory, which is to say, regions can self organize, and approach ICANN-1, be come recognized as a member of the ICANN family. 4. Once a new region can satisfy ICANN-1 that it is a stable organization, and that it can trusted to coordinate the uniqueness issue for TLDs, it then becomes ICANN-2, and can approve as many new TLDs as it wishes, and impose whatever controls on those TLDs as it wishes, subject only to whatever procedures exist for coordination of uniqueness of names. This procedure continues until you have a sufficient number of new regional groups that do what those regions want done. Jamie -------------------- James Love, mailto:james.love () cptech org, http://www.cptech.org voice +1.202.387.8030, mobile +1.202.361.3040, fax +1.202.234.5176 ------ End of Forwarded Message For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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