[At-Large] DOC Notice of Inquiry: DNSSEC

[JFC Morfin]

At 13:28 10/10/2008, John L wrote:
>>>DOC has, after all, been careful over the years to avoid do 
>>>anything at the root that would annoy other governments.
>>
>>I hear you, but it doesn't add up. The DOC has no foreign mandate 
>>that I'm aware of, and I have no standing with them as a foreign 
>>citizen. So while I see the words on the screen in front of me, I'm 
>>a bit confused about whether or not me speaking to them will carry 
>>any weight at all, or whether this is just window-dressing.
>
>I read it as primarily an invitation to foreign governments.  They 
>can accept comments from anyone, but I agree that individuals 
>outside the US aren't likely to be high on the list of influencers.
>
>R's,
>John

John,
The WSIS (and therefore the USG) has acknowledged the legitimacy of 
the different poles of the Internet Governance. They are the regalian 
domain, the private sector, the international organization, the 
civil-society and progressively the notion of "Internet Community", 
i.e. the @large or de facto the Internet lead users. The USG is not 
as fool as Stalin who asked "the Pope? how many armies?".

The power on the Internet is a power of technical consensus. That 
consensus can be politically imposed on Governments, financially 
purchased from the private sector, dealt with the International 
Organization, social-engineered for the civil-society, but there is 
not yet a solution to impose a technical consensus to the ecology of 
the digital ecosystem. This is what Peter de Blanc (I hope people 
remember who he was) called "our nuclear arsenal". I am sure serious 
people at the USG know how serious that comparison stands and prepare 
carefully their Hyderabad  answers, where the real issue will be the 
ICANN legacy and replacement.

Indefatigably, I will repeat that this will be decided by the 
@larges, through what the can do and what other decision maker 
believe they can do.
Indefatigably, I will repeat that ICANN makes the decision through 
the way they relate with and use the ALAC.

jfc