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Re: IGP on Future U.S. Role in Internet Governance Fergie – Jul 28, 2005 6:11 PM PST

What is this? A statement of the obvious? I'm confused. :-)

- ferg

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Re: IGP on Future U.S. Role in Internet Governance Suresh Ramasubramanian – Jul 28, 2005 8:50 PM PST

It is a statement on the lines of "ICANN is the devil we know, so let us maintain something that is nearly like the status quo"

I'm sure Karl Auerbach will absolutely hate the idea, but sometimes stating the obvious is right because, well, it IS obvious that it is the best way to go.

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Re: IGP on Future U.S. Role in Internet Governance Karl Auerbach – Aug 01, 2005 5:34 PM PST

It would be useful if someone were to enumerate with precision and specificity exactly those tasks that ICANN does that constitute "technical coordination".

As far as I can see it is the IANA function, a function that ICANN performs in response to a purchase order, that is the only truly technical element of ICANN/IANA's work. The IANA work is essential and non-controversial (except for ccTLD redelegation).

However, that leaves the much larger body of things done by ICANN - issues such as the UDRP, the intrusive and peculiar method of allowing a few winners to have top level domains, etc - as being clearly non-technical in nature.

It would be useful to all if the myth that ICANN (as opposed to IANA) does technical things were to be eliminated.

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