france@large has engaged a debate copied to ISOC France. In French. This is related to the mail to Vint Cerf under preparation regarding the Multilingual DNS. There is a legitimate concern by American representatives. This is due to the lack of Internet architectural presentation layer. The job of a presentation layer' is to permit multiple presentations of the same global Internet with their own use and governance. These can be labeled as "externets" (external network lookalike) or "open walled garden". An American one, an European one, a Chinese one, etc. Today there is only a default one: the USA want obviously to retain control on through NTIA/ICANN. This is why the IETF technology is to be "shared" and "decentralised" with a single authoritative root, to permit the USA want to keep control on their (RFC 3935, mission of the IETF and Tunis WSIS agreement) commercial "network centric Minitel 2". Multilingual Internet makes a presentation layer, to match the needs of our world, i.e. multishared (presentation layer), distributed as implied by the WSIS declarations. The WSIS strive for a "people centric, à caractère humain, centrada en la persona" and multilingual society and network. In this, IETF proposes IDNA. This is a constrained application (not network) level presentation system. Presenting Unicode string as ASCII strings to the DNS and back to the users with a lot of problems in the middle, the IETF tries to address. At the same time, ICANN tries to become the "e-UN" of the unique network presentation layer (cf. Markey). There are two problems: - IDNA meets many difficulties because it is constrained and not everyone will accept it, and because there is no way to impose that constraints. - ICANN cannot be the "e-UN" of that unique presentation some hope to make it. This e-UN already exists, by international consensus. This is the IGF. The place where the stakeholders of a "people centric" society make their indivudal minds and decide by their own, for their own presentation [described by its own "net-centricity"]. Not by the people for the people, but by peoples, for themselves.as part of the people. This shows that ICANN is a form of "enhanced cooperation" structure, as flexibily defined by the WSIS, that carries the weight of the USA, of the legacy internet (the default presentation), of its own historic decade. As such its role is important, and the role of the ALAC in it is a key one, as the interface between ICANN and the rest of the world. Our (hoops, I forgot that this is only tomorrow that ALAC has to say if france@large is a friend or a foe) role is to report the ICANN "system" on its "exotem", i.e. everything which is external to its internal process, and to prepare the way of ICANN in foreign (real and thematic) territories. What Danny Younger does for the ICANN internal system, ALAC has to do it for the ICANN external exotem. To permit and help its intergovernance with the other presentation governance, if we want stability and interoperability between everyone. One of the ways we should consider carefully is the ICANN/ICP-3 requested one. The testing of the evolution of the DNS towards a Multi-DNS as documented in the RFC 1034, and as experience permits us to simplify it. IETF has done its home work 25 years ago. ICANN has done its home work seven years ago. france@large with others has done its home work four years ago. Now, the decision is with ICANN to say how this should be implemented, how they want us to help them. Markey's letter is the same concern as my draft letter to Vint. There will be others. It is "what is the Internet and ICANN are be in September 2009". Everyone is quite certain it will not be much different, but ICANN, multiple-US and foreign different seeds of a totally new Internet will certainly have been placed. The good and bad technical news is that IMHO the technology can survive it. It is a good news as the Internet will still be here. It is a bad one too because it means a lot of architectural patches and conflicts. This is where ALAC should be precious to everyone, as human relation link between opposing views and procedures to adjust. jfc At 14:28 12/05/2008, Robert Guerra wrote:
Not sure i've seen this on any of the ICANN related lists yet.. would At-Large be interested in commenting on or before the June meeting in Paris?
(US Congress) House Leaders Urge Preservation Of ICANN Role http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2008/05/house_leaders_urge_preserva...
Posted on May 6, 2008
(US Congress) House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell and ranking member Joe Barton joined 14 other colleagues on Tuesday in sending a letter to Commerce Secretary Gutierrez praising the administration's continued oversight of the international entity charged with administering the Internet.
The lawmakers also asked the Commerce Department to comment on the possibility of an overseas relocation of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which is currently based in Marina Del Ray, Calif. Rumors have swirled in recent years that some foreign government and industry stakeholders want ICANN's headquarters to move to Brussels.
The concern comes as ICANN's leaders gradually try to transition the coordination of technical functions of the Web to the private sector. "Any change that threatens the important U.S. role in promoting U.S. commercial and free speech principles on the Internet can only hurt the consumers and businesses that count on this network every day," they wrote.
The letter requests a response to a handful of questions about ICANN's future within two weeks time. While ICANN remains the "best option for reaching consensus in an increasingly divided world," members said the organization should ensure transparency and promote greater accountability in its operations. ICANN constituents meet several times a year and their next meeting is scheduled for June 22-26 in Paris, France.
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