RE: [wg-review] [Draft] Review Working Group's Executive Summary

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

> From: YJ Park (MINC) [mailto:yjpark@minc.org]
> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 6:37 AM

> "Rome is not made a day!"
> We are buidling our own Rome which just has its shaky columns.

Well, I sort of see Chris' point. If the foundation's bad, the entire
structure will eventually collapse. I have witnessed one process hi-jacking
after another. If you don't think that led to a foundation built on
quicksand then you are not as smart as I think you are. My analysis reveals
that the DNSO has only come to this juncture because everyone else has
stopped playing with it. Two years ago, I stated that this is one probable
result of the process hi-jacking that created the DNSO. I'd love to gloat,
but this is really bad for my business plans. I really need /ICANN/DNSO to
have some semblence of life to it.

> The whole issue can be "Do we really want Rome or Moscow?"
> It's your choice.

If you're trying to describe the gap between egalitarianism and
totalitarianism, you've failed. But, I get your drift.  There is a third
alternative. What we really need is somewhere between those choices. It
doesn't have to be a bi-polar choice. There are graduations of gray.

"For the good of the Empire" had better mean "For the good of all" or their
shortly won't be an empire.

For one thing, we can start by re-enfranchising those that ICANN/DNSO
dis-enfranchised in the first place. Delete the primary tool for
dis-enfranchisement ... the constituencies, and re-integrate those blocks
back into the DNSO/GA. Then you can, ever so politely, invite the inclusive
root server operators back into the fold, rather than snubing them. Make
this an inclusive club, in fact, rather than fiction.

Actually spend the resources to develop a scalable and secure voting/polling
system. Either start with Joop's system, or talk to Stef and Ed Gerck (I
believe that they are working on something).

Move all these damned mailing lists onto a news server and build a news
server network, so that we can all talk sensibly, with some organization.
You've got a Solaris box running DNSO.ORG, you have no excuse, INN is
free-ware. But, don't put it on UseNet.

Finally, start running a RootRegistry and build your own inclusive
root-zone. Become the TLD names clearing-house that many of us always wanted
the DNSO to be.

FYI, and on the www.dnso.net homepage, the first line says "The Intent of
this organization is to support various operations regarding the
infrastructure support of the Domain Name System (DNS)." That sentiment
hasn't changed in two years. However, in two years, the DNSO hasn't moved
any closer to that goal. DNSO.NET was envisioned to support a Root Registry
NOC. It should have been a part of ICANN long ago.


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