Re: [ga] NTIA "Request for Information" on the IANA Functions

[Veni Markovski <veni@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

At 01:00 AM 27.2.2006 '?.'  +0100, JFC Morfin wrote:
> Dear Danny,
> I fully agree with your evaluation. However I think you miss what is 
> the internet. It is not what its practical reality may be. It is 
> what the users of the world think it is. This is why I tell Joop 
> that the silence only shows that the GA is now only an American 
> forum, like the Internet is now only an American network. The new 
> world network will eventually be by the IGF.

Actually you are right - but only to a certain extent. The Internet 
is not a US network. The .com is the US network. All other domain 
names are outside of the US-oriented monopoly.
The IGF, on the other hand, will not be able to spread the usage of 
Internet on a world-wide scale. Only citizens, netizens, can do that. 
Governments may help or try to prevent, but they can't stop the 
development of the Internet.

> Good or bad, ICANN is the only US acceptable solution for the IANA 
> management at this time. Every other solution will be considered as 
> a privatisation of the Internationalised US Internet, and the signal 
> for balkanisation.

I have to disagree - as I always do - with using a term, that has a 
very narrow history base. Balkanisation for me - coming from Bulgaria 
- means actually http://www.goranbregovic.co.yu/ , or the music of 
the genious English violin player Nigel Kennedy with the Kroke band 
from Poland (google for album "East meets East")

best,
Veni