+1 David At 05:19 PM 1/13/2016, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 05:01:23PM -0500, Greg Shatan wrote:
If it was any application beyond the new TLDs then maybe your concern is realized.
Yes, that's exactly what the concern is, as several of us have tried to say in different ways.
ICANN is supposed to manage certain parts of the DNS, not "the DNS". The DNS is designed _precisely_ to foil this kind of centralised responsibility. It's the only thing that has kept it around so long, given all its faults. Attempting to make ICANN responsible for consumer trust in the DNS in general[1] is just another way of trying to make ICANN into Lords of the Internet instead of insisting that they be responsible, competent administrators of their narrow technical function.
If what you're arguing is that ICANN's previous AoC included as a matter of words but not intent resposibility for stuff outside ICANN's remit, I'm prepared to admit that. But as a practical matter, in that case, I think we still need to kick sorting that out to WS 2 and put in this WS only the bit we all definitely agree was in scope: the new TLD program. Otherwise, we'll never ship the minimal stuff necessary for the transition. With the new community powers, the community will be able to take the time to get any further analysis right and craft text that is actually appropriate to ICANN's job.
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[1] whatever that means, anyway. It's to me like saying "consumer trust in fuel ignition systems". Do drivers even know whether their cars have a fuel ignition system? If your car breaks down, do you get angry at Bosch or NGK or Denso, or do get angry at whoever made your car? I actually know who made my "ignition system" (and the cheating, lying software inside it -- mine isn't a separate part of the engine), but I'm still mad at VW.
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