Re: Don't screw up our ICANN (was RE: [ga] RE: issues that are long closed?)

[Kim Davies <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting JFC Morfin on Thursday July 05, 2007:
| Wake up ! I am afraid ICANN's little Australia is really far apart 
| from the rest of the world :-)

As usual, I find myself understanding almost none of what you say -- and
I am sure I am not alone in that regard.

| >When has ICANN claimed it operates the Internet? I don't see anyone
| >making that claim.
| 
| Then, there is no need to protect it from any responsibility since it 
| has none. I am sure that Paul Twomey will be relieved.

So, either ICANN operates the Internet, or it has no responsibility?

I disagree with your belief that it is a black or white proposition --
that ICANN is either responsible for the whole kit-and-caboodle, or it
is responsible for nothing.

It seems to me ICANN has responsibility for some bits of the Internet,
such as coordination functions associated with the DNS root zone, IP
addressing, protocol assignments and so forth. That means it neither
operates the Internet, nor does it mean it has no responsibility.

| You funny. ICANN is accountable to the national communities how it 
| supports their needs. Fairy tales are good to repeat but you should 
| not expect people to believe them once they are grown up. You have 
| asked enough the Govs to be involved, progressively the ccTLD 
| Managers are what you wanted: the Govs. Their first duty is to 
| protect us from you, as much as we expect you to protect us from 
| them, so we can survive both. Somethikng like Church and State. That 
| you failed with @large, so we went to find to the IGF.

I don't understand this, but note you are ascribing things to me. Do you
really mean me, or are you referring to someone else? I ask because I
don't recall doing what you say I have done, nor people needing to be
protected from me.

| I am only interested in the IANA functions it was created to be 
| delegated. Don't forget the IP blocks.

I don't forget about ICANN's functions outside of ccTLD management. You
are the one that said the trustees for ICANN are ccTLD Managers, not
me. You are also the one who said that all ICANN should do is edit a
spreadsheet of ccTLD Managers, which would imply you want it to ignore
its other functions.

| BTW: Vint Cerf said once the authoritative root is the root with the 
| largest number of users. This makes it Neustar, not for ".us" but as 
| the manager of the GSMA root, with ".gprs".

That makes no logical sense, but if you believe the authoritative root
is run by Neustar then why are you concerned about ICANN?

kim