vinton g. cerf wrote: > ... > Unfortunately, the discussion has tended to center on ICANN as the only > really visible example of an organization attempting to develop policy > (which is being treated as synonymous with "governance" To further your point, an area completely outside of ICANN's purview, yet an area requiring governance is PKI. We are at the point where deployment of a PKI has moved beyond technical issues, becoming almost completely the policy & politics of "trust". Until the politicians broker the trust relationships, there is nothing technology can do. Tony