Re: [ga] Are "Split Roots" the Future of the Internet?

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Danny and all former DNSO GA members or other interested stakeholders/users,

I and most of our members have agreed with this approach for a number
of years now.  It is important that the UN is not involved in any significant
way which is the main distinction from some time ago debates on this
very concept.  However Vint Cerf was staunchly against this approach
than and still seems to be now given many of his most recent public
remarks.  ICANN as a whole is also on record of being against
the "split root" or "Alt-root" concept as well.

Danny Younger wrote:

> http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200511/msg00184.html
>
> Excerpt:
>
> The U.S. is making apocalyptic predictions of what the
> U.N. would do if given control. Those predictions are
> probably optimistic; U.N. control would be a disaster.
> But there is a third way, as Mr. Gore might say. That
> alternative doesn't serve the interests of either the
> U.S. government, which enjoys the control it currently
> exercises, or its critics, who would much prefer to do
> their censoring under a multilateral umbrella. But if
> the U.S. continues its Internet brinkmanship, the
> third way will become not only likely, but inevitable.
>
> That alternative is a fragmented Internet, without a
> single "root file" that describes the locations of
> everything on the Net. The U.S. government has led
> many to believe that this is equivalent to dismantling
> the Internet itself. But it is bluffing.
>
> Root servers could spring up in France, or Cuba, or
> Iran. In time, the Internet might look less like the
> Internet and more like, say, the phone system, where
> there is no "controlling legal authority" on the
> international level. More liberal-minded countries
> would probably, if they did adopt a local root-server,
> allow users to specify which server they wanted to
> query when typing in, say, Microsoft.com.
>
> Would it be better if countries that want to muck
> around with the Net just didn't? Sure. But they do
> want to, and they will, and it would be far better, in
> the long run, if they did so on their own, without a
> U.N. agency to corrupt or give them shelter.
>
> It's time to drop the apocalyptic rhetoric about a
> split root file and start looking beyond the age of a
> U.S.-dominated Internet. Breaking up is hard to do,
> but in this case, the alternative would be worse.
>
>
>
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