[At-Large] Re-engineering the Internet

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

Patrick Vande Walle said:

> This is where I think ICANN could and should be more active in fostering
> and sponsoring new research aimed at designing a new Internet, targeting
> the general public good, with no short term economic considerations.
> Granted, I do not expect ICANN to do the work of the IETF. However, I 
> think
> it is not necessarily a good thing to let the engineers be in charge of
> everything, from the general vision to specifications and implementation.
> There needs to be a top level vision, a master plan of what we want the
> Internet to be in 10 years time.

Can I also add my voice of support to this point of view? Having attended 
ICANN Paris & IETF Dublin, I have realised how little cooperation there is 
between those two constituencies. Worse, there is much distrust from either 
side, often brought forth by individual feuds as well as misunderstanding of 
issues (and of each other).

IMHO it is time to bridge the gap, especially since challenges that lie 
ahead of us are somehow far greater than anything we've had to tackle so far 
and many of those challenges incorporate a mixed technical/political side to 
them. I'm thinking DNS stability in the face of lots more gTLDs as well as 
increased brute force hacking capability, IPv4 to IPv6 transition, Network 
Neutrality, etc.

I don't need to list them all here: the ALAC is well informed.

O.
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Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond, Ph.D.
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