[ga] Re: ICANN as a Governing Body

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>]

At 00:20 30/03/2001 +1000, Patrick Corliss wrote:
> > this is just plain silly. What does one do when those sources conflict?
> > as new.net has demonstrated, they WILL conflict, unless one has a governing
> > body that ensures they don't. And if so - what is the improvement?
>
>I don't really have the inclination right now to get into a debate but I will
>make a couple of quick points.  At present we DO have a "governing body" 
>called ICANN and we ALSO have a business called New.Net.  Thus the 
>governing body can't stop the colliders.  I don't think they ever will 
>have the capacity to do that.

Right. I do not want to have the power to stop them either; I think people 
who do stupid things should be allowed to do so (within reasonable limits).
What I WOULD like is to have a course of practice that I can recommend to 
people; at the moment my recommended practice is to use the ICANN root.
I cannot in sanity recommend what I think is the consequence of what Jefsey 
is saying.

I fail to see the difference at an abstract level between ICANN and the 
game theory you propose; ICANN *is* an attempt at "A game theory approach 
whereby we all co-operate for the good of the whole". It is just that we 
are ruinously bad at playing this game.

We have seen the enemy, and he is us.

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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, alvestrand@cisco.com
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Personal email: Harald@Alvestrand.no

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