> 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. since when are politicians trustworthy enough to broker trust relationships? I'd put this a different way. Until PKIs are able to represent the rich diversity of trust relationships that exist in the real world, they are mere curiosities with marginal practical value.
>From a very recent article for the economist: (not sure about the exact wording) Politicians have shown they are greedy and influenceable as to see their priorities when it comes to Internet: Intellectual Property pushed by the powerful music industry lobby against the privacy and rights of millions of people.
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