From: Andrew David <davi0958@umn.edu>
To: <DNSTransition@ntia.doc.gov>
Date: Mon, Jul 3, 2006 4:16 PM
Subject: Transition
ICANN has for years had a strangle hold on the way the Internet
and DNS
records are maintained. Instead of being an open International
Consortium of interested parties they have for years quashed
valid and
useful domain names. In order to fix this there should be a
truely
international organization in charge of running how domain
names are
given out. This organization should elect board members (by
majority
votes) just like any other non-profit organization elects its
officials
(e.g., ACM). One caveat; Anyone and everyone must be able to
join and
vote in this organization. Given some level of trust with regards
to
controlling multiple logins from the same person/s. The Internet
is
something which is endowed to the entire world and as such
the entire
world should have a hand in how it is run, this is only fair
and is the
only way to prevent other organizations like ICANN from springing
up and
strangling innovation in the future.
I only wish we had been given this chance with regards
to the recent
governance of how bandwidth is to be allocated and priced
with premium,
or non-premium speeds/rates. This too will also begin
to erode the
usefulness of the Internet.
Cheers,
Andrew David
Systems Engineer
University of Minnesota | Twin Cities Campus |