Karl: Thanks very much for this interesting historical perspective on Keiren's article and generated comments. As usual, it is engaging..and food for wider thought. Carlton On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Karl Auerbach <karl@cavebear.com> wrote:
On 05/10/2010 01:53 AM, Christian Larrinaga wrote:
Has Peter Dengate Thrush been quoted accurately by the Register in
this article?
Is he as ICANN Chair really suggesting an International Treaty
organisation to oversee the DNS? and Nuremberg trails for those countries that do bad things to it?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/07/dnssec_and_geo_political_implication...
From what I read (and know about PDT) I sense that you are reading too much into the words in the article. (And I find it interesting that the author if the article is ICANN's former Kieren McCarthy.)
As for the basic premise underlying PDT's comments.
The net is accelerating the erosion of the nation-state system established by the treaty of Westphalia (about year 1645). The erosion first became noticeable after WW-II with the rise of multi-national corporations.
The results of that erosion, the granules of sovereign authority, are not washing away and disappearing. Rather they are flowing into new organizations, such as ICANN. Unfortunately we seem to have forgotten to apply all the lessons taught by 18th century thinkers about how one creates self-constraining and self-limiting bodies of power and authority.
The net (pun intended) result is that we are returning to an era of overlapping sovereigns - much as existed in renaissance Italy where temporal matters were under the local duke and spiritual matters were under the Pope.
Jumping back to technology - DNSSEC does not appear to prevent the establishment of competing root systems. (And as people who have read my stuff may know, I advocate competing roots as a way out of mess surrounding new TLDs - if you are interested take a look under the "Alternative History" section of http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000331.html )
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