[At-Large] (No so) Serious Allegations

[JFC Morfin]

At 16:53 27/11/2008, Ross Rader wrote:
>On Nov 27, 2008, at 10:33 AM, Patrick Vande Walle wrote:
>>things governments
>>are actually useful for
>
>In each case, I think the internet ends up in a better place if the
>solutions come from the users. Using governments as a proxy for strong
>policy internationalizes the internet. It is inherently global, and we
>lose if it de-aggregates in this way.

Ross,
"global" means opposite things in American ("unique") and in other 
languages ("all together"), including English. This results in a 
strong real life misunderstanding that affects all the international 
Internet Governance debate. It is between the unilateral US globality 
and the multilateral globality. In French "globalization" (in 
American with a "z") and its "internationalization" strategy opposes 
"mondialisation" [which is globalisation with an "s"]). For example, 
this translates in the GNI a(nti)-government unilateralism: this 
opposes the fundamental subisidiarity and proportionality principles 
most of the people believes the world and the Internet are built upon.

In terms of Internet architecture this creates the opposition between 
the ICANN (de?)centralized vision and the distributed nature of the 
Internet. Today we have an ongoing discussion at the IETF (BEHAVE) 
where the question is about NAT66 (an IPv6:IPv6 NAT version - the 
Internet Draft is being  introduced by very serious IETF leaders, in 
order to try to control what NAT could do under IPv6). The debate 
shows that NAT66 will not only be built and deploy, their features be 
much more developped than the IETF proposition, but that they will 
support a large diversity of IPv6 Realms - hence a large diversity of 
DNS roots.

Most of the IETF old members hope this will not go that way. Because 
ICANN and the USA will not control the network anymore (this goes 
with the debate on DNSSEC, which is for many only a political attempt 
[unworkable rusty technical proposition] to protect the IANA - that 
Paul Twomey and Vint Cerf introduced some years ago [in Luxembourg] 
in the ICANN strategic plan).

It is very odd that in a democratic country like the USA you tend to 
think that your Government is your first ennemy. Or do we think the 
same, when we think that our Governements are our best protection 
against your Government?
jfc