[At-Large] RES: DOC Notice of Inquiry: DNSSEC

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

"Ross Rader" <ross at tucows.com> wrote:

[...]

> The DOC consultation seems to be saying, we don't trust the  organization 
> that we delegated this responsibility to (that of global  consultation on 
> DNS policy issues) so we're going to undertake an  international 
> consultation.
>
> The impact of this is two-fold - it diminishes the power and  importance 
> of ICANN as the organization where DNS policy matters are  dealt with and 
> more importantly, it diminishes the power and  importance of individuals 
> in that process.

I completely agree and would add that the flipside of this is that other 
governments (for example, in Europe) take this as a proof that ICANN is just 
a puppet organisation used by the US government to "control" the Internet.
Why is this happening? Why feed conspiracy theorists? Why weaken ICANN? What 
good does this bring to the common table? After all, are we (in the widest 
term) not all supposed to work for the public good?

O.

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Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond, Ph.D.
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