[ga] Re: Is there still a GNSO?
At 13:39 03/01/2005, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 01:27:13PM +0100, J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 27 lines which said:
My bet/feeling is that we are now on the verge of a big user architecture change which may be an innovation tide of which NATs, VoIP, P2P were only the first waves. The same as master centric systems became network centric with the Internet "revolution", I suspect we are increasingly back to a user centric cultural "maturation" (like a 3rd generation). ICANN and ITU have cons and pros but cannot be the only structures for the whole digital intergovernance. This is why I suggest an ITU-I sector to interface users networks, the same as ICANN has set-up the GAC to interface Govs. The real problem IMHO is the confusion between accidental aspects, such as the legacy DNS and IPv6 plans, with the organization of the whole digital ecosystem. Our desillusion is great when people see they have no impact on the bulldozers and the huge amount of money put into the road ICANN and USG build for the world. We can all understand and accept that. Except that this road most probably leads to nowhere. I know it because the OSI/Internet vision was never mine, and because for that reason I was for a long not even understood. But now I meet an increasing understanding and even some very serious support. Not big yet :-) but clear enough to sense that things are changing. This no more rebell P2P against network centric, but a rising top (in quality and power) and documented interests, time to time supported by the emergence of (sometimes decade old or more) converging efforts. This is why I feel it is time to start considering. Doing it in here, on the grounds of naming, at the TFIPv6 for numbering and routing, at IETF for multilingualism, etc. might help preserve the chances of a smooth transition (there is a large co-investment to protect). And to avoid the balkanization spotted by Vixie and the fragmentation documented by Gorichon. Another solution would be to match the challenge and to build it and finance it ourselves the response. I am less and less sure we cannot do it (all the more it represents a huge - yet different -commercial opportunity some should eventually understand). If the GNSO only helped to investigate it, it would have been quite usefull. All the more if this helped the tide not to be a tsunami. "First they ignore you, then they laught at you, then they fight you, then you win". said Gandhi: I only wish we could change the end into "we win". The big change is that the "3rd generation" standalone gateways we sold 20 years ago, to countries and large organizations, before the OSI/Internet episode, costed $ 250.000 each: you can have them this year for $ 125 at the next computer shop. Here is on of the small change. It took time to make it. But now we have done it and can proceed. jfc
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