Re: [icann-europe] European Root Server System

[Vittorio Bertola <vb@vitaminic.net>]

On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:22:33 +0200, Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>
wrote:

>I am interested in the cond and pros about a European parallel root sever 
>system.
>
>IMHO the current US cybersecurity study of Richard Clarke will show the 
>need that the Pentagon has claimed a few times already of an all US root 
>server system. I think we should consider our own root server system as a 
>contingency plan.

I absolutely don't like the idea of breaking the Internet in parts,
but given that the Internet is now a vital infrastructure for
economical development and for national security, it doesn't seem
likely that the US government releases any control over it in the
short term, even if to a true international organisation, and I don't
think that the EU should continue accepting the US ruling over it,
especially in the present situation where US delegates a part of it to
ICANN which in turns not only fails, but actively refuses to grant
adequate representation to the public in general, and to establish any
real means of participation for non-English-speaking communities.

So I think that the EU should set up both a parallel root system and a
parallel organisation to ICANN (at least, to the current US-controlled
ICANN), and then such organisation and US-ICANN could agree to
maintain the two systems synchronised, or even to establish a small
overlying council to decide worldwide policy when necessary (based on
the principle that decisions should be taken locally as much as
possible). So the EU root, in case of need, could be used in the
interest of European citizens and economies - not, when they collide,
in the interest of the US ones.

My opinion, of course, might change if ICANN became a truely open and
international organization. But anyway, I feel the need for a
"detachable" European set of servers in case Europe ever needed to
claim its independence.
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