Hi all, Seun:

On 18 December 2014 at 05:07, Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Jordan Carter <jordan@internetnz.net.nz> wrote:

Giving both the right to operate the IANA functions, and the responsibility for operating the Root Zone, to the same entity would be far worse in respect of accountability and creating a new massively centralised power structure in Internet Governance than even the current idea of simply transferring IANA to ICANN in perpetuity.

The implementation of the names related IANA functions is largely the operation of the Root Zone, so i am not sure i understand why/how you have counted this as double rights?

Because today, there are two agreements and three parties:

NTIA which essentially "owns" the DNS, and offers two contracts/agreements:

- to ICANN to be the IANA functions administrator

- to Verisign to be the Root Zone Maintainer 

If I read your suggestion right, you seem to think folding all that into one organisation would be OK.

I can't imagine how that would be OK. It would be a giant concentration of power in one place and would create an all-powerful central institution for names management (absent massive cultural and structural changes at ICANN). 

Even if ICANN transitions to a more accountable organisation in terms of what it does, that doesn't balance out the very far-reaching change you seem to have suggested of putting all the pieces in one basket.

I cannot fathom how anyone who believes in distributed Internet governance can even contemplate such an idea.

Is your statement above clarified based on my comment above?
 

I think so. 

Jordan

 

But I am a relative newcomer. Can someone who supports such a notion explain it?

I am too and still learning...so will be good to know what i may have missed

Thanks

best

Jordan

On 17 December 2014 at 19:05, Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for the share... NTIA's role in this may not necessarily be replaced. One could then envision an arrangement between the operator and verisign (assuming verisign is still willing). It's good to note that some of the processes are already automated.

Cheers!

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kindly excuse brevity and typos.

On 16 Dec 2014 23:31, "Allan MacGillivray" <allan.macgillivray@cira.ca> wrote:

The NTIA has just posted a document on its role in Root Zone Management:  http://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/ntias_role_root_zone_management_12162014.pdf

 

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