Ronda Hauben on 19 Mar 2001 16:03:55 -0000 |
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[Nettime-bold] National Academy of Science and future of Internet addressing and DNS |
There's a new study of the Internet's DNS system that is being set up at the National Academy of Science which is a policy institution created by the US Congress to advise the US government. The goal appears to be the same privatization of the Internet's public infrastructure that has so derailed the activities of ICANN. Internet Addressing and The Domain Name System: Technical Alternatives and Policy Implications URL: http://www4.nas.edu/cp.nsf/Projects+_by+_PIN/CSTB-L-99-07-A?OpenDocument And instead of learning from the mistakes of ICANN the choice of the committee members that has just been announced (and which are open to be commented on for a short period of time) include several who were part of the process of supporting ICANN's creation and development. The scope for investigation for the committee narrows the online community to "Effective solutions must consider the potentially competing interests of domain name owners and trademark holders; the different interests of large multinational corporations, small business owners and individuals; and public interests such as freedom of speech and personal privacy." from: Project Title: Internet Addressing and The Domain Name System: Technical Alternatives and Policy Implications Project Identification Number: CSTB-L-99-07-A To see the Internet community as large multinational corporations, small business owners and individuals, and to have these represented on the committee as those to make the decisions for the future of the Internet's infrastructure shows the US government's continued lack of understanding of the need for effective channels of communication and feedback into policy decisions for the whole Internet community which includes the scientific and technical community, the artistic community, the education community, etc. The Internet was built on the basis of effective feedback, but the efforts to privatize its infrastructure has tried to change the course of the Internet and of the goal of its development. Instead of learning from the effective development of the Internet, the US government is trying to restructure Internet development into the narrow confines of a narrow corporate model of society. Unless one understands the nature of the feedback system that made it possible to build the Internet, it will not be possible to effectively scale the Internet. However, it appears that the US government is more interested in privatizing the Internet's infrastructure than in finding a way to scale it successfully. ICANN is one indicator of the US government's misdirected policy goals, and now the formation and composition of the new NAS committee is another such indicator. Ronda ronda@panix.com http://www.ais.org/~ronda/new.papers/birth_internet.txt http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/ I am working on a paper about a governance model that set the foundations for the Internet and would welcome comments on a draft that I hope to have available soon. The ICANN fiasco has shown that there is a need for a constructive model for Internet governance. I welcome hearing from those who feel this is a need and who are willing to try to collaborate toward this goal. _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold