ISPCP Draft Comments on US Government ICANN MoU Inquiry
All: I have made a first attempt at drafting an ISPCP response to the US Government's Request for Comments on the ICANN MoU. I'm attaching it for your review and comment in two formats: one as a MS Word document, and the other as a PDF file. The content of each is the same. As you may know the US Government continues to welcome comments in this matter. I hope you will have a chance to examine this draft and suggest changes, editing or deletions. I particularly welcome new text. I've tried to keep this draft short, but if you are interested in just seeing the highlights, simply read the bold and italicized parts of the responses to the questions. These sections state the ISPCP positions on the question topics. Once again, this is very much a draft. I look forward to your comments and additional suggestions for text changes. I intend to complete a final version and submit it to the US Government in the next week. On behalf of the ISPCP, Mark McFadden ISPCP Secretariat
Mark (et al), I like your draft. We might replace "tragic attempt" with "misguided attempt" - although I can think of other, more juicy adjectives ;-) If we would like to comment on the unsatisfactory informality of current arrangements with root server operators, may I suggest something like the following: The current administration of the DNS root depends on distributed and redundant operation of the root name servers by a dozen independent organizations. Although this systems performance has been acceptable to date, it is remarkable that it is based entirely on informal agreements with the operators. This threatens to undermine the credibility of ICANN as a legitimate, responsible custodian of the DNS. The DNS has become vital to international electronic communication and commerce and the root is the lynchpin of the entire system. Surely more business-like arrangements are called for in order to ensure the stability and security of the DNS root in the future. If ICANN is to convince the international community that it is competent and worthy of the authority it bears, it must operate in a more professional fashion. Feel free to change this in any way you like to make it fit into the document. Comments? Greg __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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