[ga] Research/Age of the innocence, gone

[Eric Dierker <eric@hi-tek.com>]

I have been moved by the contribution of the Internet and its assistance
to those in need and to investigators over the past few days.  I asked
our BoD to set up a brown ribbon WG to assess and promote ways in which
we could do even more as a community, but there has been no response.
So I have decided to go it alone.

PREVIOUS EXAMPLES:

I ask all of you more knowledgeable than I to help me find previous
examples of how the Internet has been used to save lives and relieve
suffering.  I am looking for any situation where the medium of
communication has been used to ease suffering.  From prayer circles to
medical operative procedures to military exercise.

The immediate goal is to gather references.  The hope is to then
evaluate the data and find problems which occurred and then get techies
and pollywogs to analyze and develop methods to route around such
obstacles to success.

FURTHER PROBLEMS:

We in the Internet community were thrown backwards and shaken and
useless.  Yes the Internet was useful and helpful and that is to be
blessed.  But those persons within the highly esteemed group of
governors of the net did not have an emergency program in place.  Why?
Should they have?  With Wall Street down should 20 domain names
involving world trade have been sold by Verisign?  Is there a regimen
for curtailing non-essential use in a grading progression?  Dial-ups vs
Other in time of crisis?

Should we design a system of protocol without emergency provisions? --
fairly irresponsible!

GROWING UP:

With each tragedy my children face they grow up a little.  I try to
protect them from as many as possible to avoid their pain and to keep
the innocence for a day longer.  But sometimes I must just tell my
daughters that sometimes bad guys come along and you just have to build
a system to deal with it.  The Internet has left the age of the
innocence.  We have contributed to suffering and we have contributed to
the system to alleviate suffering.  Now as a group working with the
Assignment of Names and Numbers, the PSO and the ASO we must take
responsibility and protect against the bad and provide for the good.

If not us then who?

WORLD WIDE:

Restricted ccTLDs have a natural ring to them but they restrict usage.
Do they promote Nationality or bigotry?  Are the old models exclusive of
protective?  Do new gTLDs with their categories hurt inclusiveness or
promote ease of use?  When do Internet categories really mean
stereotyping and lack of cross culturalization?  I am sending out these
questions to many ccNICs.  Only questions to look at in search of
answers.

ADVICE and CONTRIBUTION:

I especially want to hear from this list why it is or is not the GA's
business.  I understand that Names are a cultural reflection.  Therefor
when you assign them you are engaging in cultural governance.  I wonder
how much denial there is to this fact.

Sincerely,
Eric

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