[WSIS CS-Plenary] US/ICANN agreement to be over

[Bernard Lang]

Hi,

Perhaps someone can give me a pointer to a relevant paper :

I fail to see what is so important about root servers (and several
other roles of ICANN).

The day we consider that these roles are being abused, we can just
switch to another organisation in a matter of hours.

I am a lot more concerned over the internet architecture and the
protocoles used.  They cannot be easily changed, and it entails high
costs and significant cooperation from all.

Power is in architecture much more than in human organizations (and I
suspect Larry Lessig would strongly agree - but I did not ask).

Bernard Lang


* Marouen MRAIHI <mr.marouen at gmail.com>, le 01-08-06, a écrit:
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> - The US/ICANN agreement will be over on september 30
> - Mr John Kneuer from the DoC said that they want to "give up" some of
> the controls over internet to the private sector or the international
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> will be included in this transfer.
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