[132953] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Blocking International DNS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Thu Dec 2 23:32:32 2010
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinW4zzhDfgjk0P0+SHLMAet9VrYOMtFr+ryMAT-@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 18:31:28 -1000
To: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Jorge,
On Dec 2, 2010, at 6:02 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote:
> I bet it is not a trivial enterprise to put together and give shape to
> an organization like ICANN. My biggest concern is that somewhere in
> the painful process of building this organization something got
> completely derailed from its original intents.
I suppose it depends on your view of "its original intents" (and what =
you mean by "ICANN").
> I believe that there is a lot of people very concerned with what ICANN
> is doing and what it is supposed to do, and trying to fix it from
> within is not an easy task either, getting involved in ICANN's
> processes and ecosystem is very demanding, and unless you have a big
> chunk of dough in the bank or are being paid (which brings on front
> line the interests of who pays you) there is not an easy way to make
> free volunteer work effective.
My view (having been on both sides now) is that despite numerous =
missteps, particularly early in its life, ICANN really is trying to do =
"the right thing". There are lots of challenges, not least of which is =
that given ICANN's structure, the definition of "the right thing" =
depends on who participates most actively in the myriad ICANN processes.
> I guess we are sliding OT for this list ...sigh
Yep, and that's unfortunate as folks who participate in NANOG generally =
have opinions that could counterbalance the folks who usually show up at =
ICANN meetings.
Regards,
-drc
