[128176] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Who controlls the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jorge Amodio)
Sun Jul 25 19:55:08 2010
In-Reply-To: <20100725202139.GC19483@vacation.karoshi.com.>
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:54:56 -0500
From: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com>
To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>> PS. ICANN has no responsibility or operational role denying access or se=
rvices.
>>
>> Regards
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0except ICANN has presumed for itself an operational role.
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0it has taken on root server operations for some years now
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0and is trying to take over root zone editorial control.
Sure, no doubt there are some groups under the ICANN umbrella
desperate to expand their "operational" role including the last move
about creating a DNS-CERT or GAC-ifing every decision.
Besides L server I don't think ICANN has much control of the rest of
the root servers.
Amen about the root zone.
I'd love to see how viable and what it would take to "go Postel",
screw ICANN and declare independence from it.
I'd say that today nobody has full control but among some
organizations (including now the other competing traveling circus aka
IGF) many want to have it.
Cheers
Jorge
