<html>
<font size=3>At 01:46 PM 4/30/2002 -0400, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami
School of Law wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>We are not limited to those
choices. Having ICANN devolve and share power<br>
regionally and functionally produces a better outcome to either of
these<br>
Hobson's choices.</font></blockquote><br>
This line of thinking continues to ignore two, fundamental
constraints:<br><br>
1. The hierarchical nature of the DNS requires a single, logical
control over allocation/assignment policy. Any effort to
"devolve and share power" must be designed in a way that is
compatible with this technical constraint. However no proposal for
this has been put forward to permit honest, diligent analysis of its
operational feasibility.<br><br>
2. The ability to reach consensus about things is not much better
at the regional level than it is at the global level. For one
thing, the construct of a "region" is often quite
artificial. For another, members of a region often have widely
disparate needs and goals. Again, any proposal for devolution and
sharing of power needs to attend to this core fact of life.<br><br>
d/<br><br>
<x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
<font size=3>----------<br>
Dave Crocker
<</font><a href="mailto:dave@tribalwise.com" eudora="autourl"><font size=3 color="#0000FF"><u>mailto:dave@tribalwise.com</a></u></font><font size=3>><br>
TribalWise, Inc.
<</font><a href="http://www.tribalwise.com/" eudora="autourl"><font size=3 color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.tribalwise.com</a></u></font><font size=3>><br>
tel +1.408.246.8253; fax +1.408.850.1850<br>
</font></html>