At 08:53 AM 7/30/2002 -0500, Eric A. Hall wrote: >There is no question that the best way to silence the bulk of the valid >criticism would be to make ICANN an administrative function instead of a >policy function. IOW, they should be handing out TLDs, rather than >deciding which TLDs are handed out. ICANN has managed to limit itself to policy issues that are essential for doing that administration. (Whether the specific choices of policy have been the right one is not my point. Scope is my point.) All of those policy topics have derived from real and pressing issues that directly effect stability and utility of the DNS. So if ICANN does not do that policy work, who does? And why is it somehow better to have that work done elsewhere? The challenge, here, is to move beyond a rhetoric of theories and pay attention to the pragmatics. d/ ---------- Dave Crocker <mailto:dave@tribalwise.com> TribalWise, Inc. <http://www.tribalwise.com> tel +1.408.246.8253; fax +1.408.850.1850