At 10:19 29-12-2012, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
ICANN is a US corporation and the US government
can obviously pass laws that prevent ICANN/IANA
from releasing address blocks that would reach
certain countries no matter what Crocker et. al.
say to the contrary. But absent a deployed BGP security
:-)
At 14:46 29-12-2012, Patrik Fältström wrote:
In the new world, "governance" is no longer "by
decree", "by legislation" or similar. In the new
world we use the word "collaboration", and that
is done via policy development processes that
are multi stakeholder and bottom up. Like in the RIRs (for IP addresses
What people say and what they actually do or mean
is often a very different matter. An individual
may have principles (or beliefs). A stakeholder
has interests. There was an individual who
mentioned on an IETF mailing list that he/she
disagreed with his/her company's stance. It's
unlikely that a stakeholder would say that.
The collaboration is less about process and more
about culture. In some parts of the new world
"governance" is still by legislation, etc. That
could be attributed to cultural or other
factors. The WCIT outcome might be highlighting the fracture.
Regards,
-sm