On 16 February 2011 15:02, Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@abenaki.wabanaki.net>wrote:
That is very much more serious that just a failure in name to IP address translation, and this is also within ALAC purview as the global reachability of all distributed addresses and AS numbers is ICANN responsibility.
One does not have to stretch at all for ICANN relevancy.
Agree, but Peter and Rod already blew off all ICANN relevancy [1], and their claims are made in this RALO and by ALAC as well.
As I said ... it's one thing to create a very swift reaction to events in Egypt that anyone would listen to, quite another to advance a deliberate (and deliberative) policy that demands ICANN take whatever measures possible to prevent (and maybe subvert) all politically-motivated efforts to make Internet names and numbers inaccessible. I was wary about the former but am fully supportive of the latter. And having a concrete position in place puts us in a better position than we were to make a seriously-taken statement based on it. - Evan