Re: [ga] just what work is the GA supposed to be doing?

[James Touton <jim.touton@netzero.net>]

Jeff and all DNSO'ers,

  Well said Jeff! Kudos here!  And Kudos on the Network World Article
as well.  A very well done indeed!

Jeff Williams wrote:

> Harald and all,
>
> Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
>
> > At 12:35 17.01.00 -0500, Javier Rodriguez wrote:
> >
> > >Many times, I am saying that ICANN is a new world order, is the born of the
> > >new era, is the begining of the new world wide goverment... the ones that want
> > >to hear can hear ;-)
> >
> > <<<not really relevant to the subject matter at hand>>>
> >
> > in my humble opinion, tryhing to make ICANN into the beginning of a new
> > world wide government will seriously interfere with its ability to
> > competently manage the address space and name space of the Internet.
>
>   Agreed in part.  With the current ICANN Board outnumbering it's
> own staff, it is hard to imagine that it performing either function.  With
> a Board that has shown it's incompetence already on technical policy
> matters it is also hard to imagine it managing much of anything in any
> "Stable" manner.
>
> >
> >
> > The lessons we learn from trying to "govern" ICANN may be useful in
> > building other entities of larger scope - but trying to make a world
> > government from ICANN is likely to leave us without a world government
> > *and* without a functioning ICANN.
>
>   ICANN should be a policy making body dedicated to issues dealing with
> the technical issues of the central or basic areas of the internet. Those
> are DNS, IP addresses, and protocol's.  Nothing more.  Making a
> "Social Experiment" out of ICANN and it's now divisive Supporting
> Organizations is and exercise in futility.
>
> >
> >
> >                              Harald
> >
> > --
> > Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
> > Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Jeffrey A. Williams
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James Touton
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