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Date: 1999-10-04
ICANN: Sektierertum, Zersplitterung, Streit-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- ICANN: Sektierertum, Zersplitterung, Streit Der von der nettime-List & anderen Medien bekannte Ted Byfield lässt in seiner Analyse des neuen Domain- Konsortiums kaum ein gutes Haar an jenem. -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Ted Byfield 03.10.1999 Notes about the conference "Governing the Commons: The Future of Global Internet Administration" Aside from the "executive" setting - a fastidious array of linened tables in a Hilton meeting room just a suburban stone's throw from the Pentagon - the two-day conference Governing the Commons: The Future of Global Internet Administration felt much like a golden-age usenet group come to life: alt.conspiracy.org.icann, say. Nowhere else could one find a motley group of geeks devoted to the fascinating and frustrating project of deconstructing, disassembling, or simply destroying ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. ICANN is the year-old California-registered nonprofit corporation vested by the U.S. Department of Commerce ( DoC) with "responsibility for the IP address space allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system management" - which, venerable netizen Tony Rutkowski of the Center for the Next Generation Internet contended, is "a two person function." ICANN sees things in a different light. In a 7 June 1999 email from MCI/WorldCom Senior VP Vint Cerf (who advises ICANN but is not an officer) to ICANN's Interim President and CEO Mike Roberts, discussing ways to finance the cash- strapped non-profit, Cerf wrote, "ICANN must succeed or Internet will be in jeopardy" - a line that "ought to play well with any company whose stock price is dependent on a well- functioning Internet." But how exactly to define "well-functioning"? The minimalist - and compelling - answer was advanced by Karl Auerbach, a Cisco Systems engineer representing the Individual Domain Name Owners Constituency ( IDNO): the net's purpose, he said, is the "end-to-end transmission of IP (Internet Protocol) packets." It was by doing this reliably that the net succeeded long before ICANN came along. To pragmatic networkers, the cynicism of Cerf's email is seen as indicative of ICANN's ambitions, and his bluster its delusions of grandeur. Were it merely a matter of psychology, these tendencies would be of little concern; but because ICANN is the nexus of the political and commercial forces through which the net's older technocratic culture is being supplanted, its actions are widely viewed as a putsch in progress. In the 1 September issue of his COOK Report, Gordon Cook, an articulate critic of ICANN, bluntly summarized a sentiment that was widely if more cautiously expressed at the conference: "ICANN should be put out of its misery and the Internet left to run itself." But computers don't build themselves, routers don't configure themselves, and severed cables don't repair themselves, so Cook (and others who speak in these terms) is euphemizing: he means not physical networks but "human" networks, the extensive web of professional organizations that have maintained (among other things) the standards defining everything from client- server transactions to the shape of cable connectors. The reliability of computers and networks is a testament to the competence and coordination of these alphabetical bodies - IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), IAB (Internet Architecture Board), ITU (International Telecommunication Union), and so on. There are many more. To credit these groups with their formidable accomplishments is not to say they're apolitical or immune to parochial fights. On the contrary, they are intensely political and fractious - but, nevertheless, largely responsible for developing and coordinating the net. It is these organizations that ICANN offended - but how? full text http://www.telepolis.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/5345/1.html -.- -.-. --.- BIG BROTHER AWARDS AUSTRIA 1999 Fuer Lauschangreifer, Spitzelfirmen, Datenhaendler, gestzlich ermaechtigte Ueberwacher Reichen Sie Ihre Nominierung ein: http://www.bigbrother.awards.at -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by Harkank published on: 1999-10-04 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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