Re: [ga] RE: Registrants Constituency
At 19:27 05/03/2007, Andy Gardner wrote: Especially when they installed a CEO who was an ex-Navy commander. Those guys are used to taking orders from above, not listening to As myself an ex-Navy commander I am not sure of your diagnostic. I think I am a good example that the need in a distributed network is neither top-down (centralized) nor bottom-up (decentralized) but at-large. Please do not confuse a Colonel and a Commander. By nature a Colonel belong to a hierarchy. A commander is the master of a crew. We all are the commander of our own cybership (it being our business, our family, our laptop). This is by nature the Plato's paradigm (the origin of the "gouvernance" and "cybernetic" concepts). ICANN still thinks in a top-down "admiralty way" but we are not a fleet paid by ARPA. Joop, Danny, etc. still think as convoy commodores with some more important people (registrants, BC, NCUC, ISP, Registrars, TM holders) voting for others. But people want to (and will) sail their own way, heading for where they wants, doing what they want. Not paying much interest to all these pompous bores and their pseudo-democratic/rough consensual ways. However, the current technology prevents this (on purpose, please .... read RFC 3935! the technology is NOT the one IETF could develop, but the one that match the IETF leaders' core values. These core values are not the Human Rights [cf. IESG response to an appeal of mine] but decentralization. Not equal opportunity for everyone, not permanent addresses for all, not freedom of naming, not multilingualism, not IGF multilateralism. You can try hard, but you will not change that the digital ecosystem is distributed. That ICANN is centralized, and that the IETF technology is decentralized. The consequence is a necessary split. A split of the Internet or a split between the emergent Internet and the Legacy Internet (as signed at the US initiative in Tunis). Period. Now, there are always rear-guard people, trying to make obsolete things survive to protect their old influence or market share in the emergent world. This only creates rigidity. The current management of the namespace by ICANN will only make a smooth transition impossible. I tried. They do not want it. I do not think we can prevent the blow anymore. I only keep hoping that we will have the time to transition the user architecture before some commercial interest understands the evolution still better than Google. But this is only now a pious wish now. We wasted to much time. jfc
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