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Date: 1999-10-04

ICANN: Sektierertum, Zersplitterung, Streit


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q/depesche 99.10.4/1

ICANN: Sektierertum, Zersplitterung, Streit

Der von der nettime-List & anderen Medien bekannte Ted
Byfield lässt in seiner Analyse des neuen Domain-
Konsortiums kaum ein gutes Haar an jenem.

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Ted Byfield 03.10.1999

Notes about the conference "Governing the Commons: The
Future of Global Internet Administration"

Aside from the "executive" setting - a fastidious array of
linened tables in a Hilton meeting room just a suburban
stone's throw from the Pentagon - the two-day conference
Governing the Commons: The Future of Global Internet
Administration felt much like a golden-age usenet group
come to life: alt.conspiracy.org.icann, say. Nowhere else
could one find a motley group of geeks devoted to the
fascinating and frustrating project of deconstructing,
disassembling, or simply destroying ICANN, the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.

ICANN is the year-old California-registered nonprofit
corporation vested by the U.S. Department of Commerce (
DoC) with "responsibility for the IP address space allocation,
protocol parameter assignment, domain name system
management, and root server system management" - which,
venerable netizen Tony Rutkowski of the Center for the Next
Generation Internet contended, is "a two person function."
ICANN sees things in a different light. In a 7 June 1999 email
from MCI/WorldCom Senior VP Vint Cerf (who advises
ICANN but is not an officer) to ICANN's Interim President and
CEO Mike Roberts, discussing ways to finance the cash-
strapped non-profit, Cerf wrote, "ICANN must succeed or
Internet will be in jeopardy" - a line that "ought to play well
with any company whose stock price is dependent on a well-
functioning Internet."

But how exactly to define "well-functioning"? The minimalist -
and compelling - answer was advanced by Karl Auerbach, a
Cisco Systems engineer representing the Individual Domain
Name Owners Constituency ( IDNO): the net's purpose, he
said, is the "end-to-end transmission of IP (Internet Protocol)
packets." It was by doing this reliably that the net succeeded
long before ICANN came along. To pragmatic networkers, the
cynicism of Cerf's email is seen as indicative of ICANN's
ambitions, and his bluster its delusions of grandeur. Were it
merely a matter of psychology, these tendencies would be of
little concern; but because ICANN is the nexus of the
political and commercial forces through which the net's older
technocratic culture is being supplanted, its actions are
widely viewed as a putsch in progress.

In the 1 September issue of his COOK Report, Gordon Cook,
an articulate critic of ICANN, bluntly summarized a sentiment
that was widely if more cautiously expressed at the
conference: "ICANN should be put out of its misery and the
Internet left to run itself." But computers don't build
themselves, routers don't configure themselves, and severed
cables don't repair themselves, so Cook (and others who
speak in these terms) is euphemizing: he means not
physical networks but "human" networks, the extensive web
of professional organizations that have maintained (among
other things) the standards defining everything from client-
server transactions to the shape of cable connectors. The
reliability of computers and networks is a testament to the
competence and coordination of these alphabetical bodies -
IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), IAB (Internet
Architecture Board), ITU (International Telecommunication
Union), and so on. There are many more.

To credit these groups with their formidable accomplishments
is not to say they're apolitical or immune to parochial fights.
On the contrary, they are intensely political and fractious -
but, nevertheless, largely responsible for developing and
coordinating the net. It is these organizations that ICANN
offended - but how?

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