[128195] in North American Network Operators' Group
ICANN bashing (was Re: Who controlls the Internet?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Mon Jul 26 04:57:44 2010
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100725202139.GC19483@vacation.karoshi.com.>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:57:26 +0200
To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Bill,
On Jul 25, 2010, at 10:21 PM, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> except ICANN has presumed for itself an operational role.
ICANN, since its inception, has been the IANA functions _operator_. It =
inherited the role IANA staff performed prior to ICANN's creation. As =
far as I am aware, other than DNSSEC stuff (e.g., handling the root =
KSK), there has not been a significant change in the operational role =
ICANN performs beyond what has been requested by the community (if any).
> it has taken on root server operations for some years now
Yes. I think the folks who run L can be pretty proud of their =
achievements. Want to compare root server operations? :-)
> and is trying to take over root zone editorial control.
Actually, no, it isn't. The US Department of Commerce has been pretty =
clear that they are happy with the current model in which ICANN receives =
and vets root zone change requests, DoC NTIA authorizes those requests, =
and VeriSign edits the root zone and publishes it. Despite some portions =
of the ICANN community not being happy with this state of affairs, I'd =
be surprised if this changed anytime soon and I'm not aware of anyone in =
ICANN actively pursuing a change.
Regards,
-drc
(no longer working for ICANN, but feeling a need to defend it against =
baseless bashing)
