[At-Large] DOC Notice of Inquiry: DNSSEC

[Patrick Vande Walle]

Ross Rader wrote, On 10/10/08 15:37:
> 
> On Oct 10, 2008, at 7:28 AM, John L wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> I read it as a way of subverting the global, private sector led process
> that we all agreed to back in the '90's.

Please clarify "we". Actually, when the DoC set up ICANN in 1998, there
was no alternative model proposed, apart from the gTLD MoU which was
shot down by the Clinton administration. Hence, we could only agree by
default. Now, all we can do is try to get the best of this model and
work towards a better one.

This being said, the private sector has not yet demonstrated it does
better than nation states in terms of regulation, or self regulation in
that case. This is also the case of the Internet industry.

After 10 years of ICANNing, we still have no global legal framework to
deal with issues like privacy, harmonized consumer rights regarding
domain names, etc. This is outside ICANN's mandate, mostly because ICANN
and the USG have no standing on their own in generating international
private law. The only ones who could would be nation states, working
under a common umbrella.

> The USG needs to back-off of our internet.

I agree.

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