[ncdnhc-discuss] ICANN Reform: Role of ITU

[Dave Crocker]

At 01:46 PM 4/30/2002 -0400, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote:
>We are not limited to those choices.  Having ICANN devolve and share power
>regionally and functionally produces a better outcome to either of these
>Hobson's choices.

This line of thinking continues to ignore two, fundamental constraints:

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.

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.

d/


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