Jon,
I think your premise here is right, but I believe there are multiple issues
you touch here:
1) I believe Jon felt (and others knew hom FAR better than I) that HE could
no longer lead the effort solely.
2) The IETF itself expressed/expresses many of the technical aspects of how
the DNS operates. They have never adequately addressed many of the
operational characteristics, which are quite separate.
3) Other items, such as new TLDs, trademark interests, etc. may require a
different organization, but can still be addressed largely in an IETF-like
manner - meaning the open approach toward participation and comment.
Several of this list's participants have suggested an IPTF - Internet
Policy Task Force - which could address them. It is at least a model worth
additional discussion and consideration.
4) I do not see how an IETF-like format must preclude necessary safeguards
and due process. It may require a *different* set of procedures than the
IETF now applies, but the model remains the same.
Gene...
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Hi Jon Zittrain, you wrote on 7/8/99 8:45:08 PM:
>Gene,
>
>I always figured that the IETF approach is what Jon & IANA more or less
>represented, for better or worse--with the IETF's degree of open
>participation. Indeed, much of the structure of the DNS is expressed
>through the IETF RFC process.
>
>ICANN's model is certainly a far cry from that--but the basis of the White
>Paper was that Jon's system wasn't working anymore on its own. Jon
>certainly wanted out of the creeping policy stuff, and other
>pressures--new
>TLDs, trademark interests, and entrepreneurial interests in shared
>registries with millions of dollars at stake--pushed this enough out of
>the
>"mere" technical realm to require a more formal decisionmaking
>structure. Jon seemed to feel he couldn't make (or shepard) any major new
>DNS policy without an institution of some kind behind it. To
>lawyers/constitutionalists that means procedural safeguards, due process,
>notice & comment, balanced stakeholder representation, independent
>review--all the stuff that a more informal process tries to do
>intuitively. ...JZ
>
>At 10:23 PM 7/8/99 , Gene Marsh wrote:
>Again, an IETF-like approach might work well here. Open participation and
>policy creation are the only real way to gain real consensus.
>
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>I'm very happy @.HOME(sm)
>Gene Marsh
>president, anycastNET Incorporated
>
>
>Jon Zittrain
>Executive Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law
>School
>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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I'm very happy @.HOME(sm)
Gene Marsh
president, anycastNET Incorporated
