Re: [icann-europe] European Root Server System

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Vittorio and all,

  Vittorio, as you may know we [INEGroup] came to support what
you are advocating over a year ago now.  Although it is unfortunate
that at that time the ICANN BoD and staff could not and still do not
wish to keep the DNS and IP registry systems homogeneous yet
open is unfortunate, but leads the stakeholders/users to seek
to "split the net" as it is known in order to have free and open
competition yet maintain reasonable stability and security.

Vittorio Bertola wrote:

> 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.
> --
> .oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo vb.
> Vittorio Bertola     <vb@vitaminic.net>    Ph. +39 011 23381220
> Vitaminic [The Music Evolution] - Vice President for Technology
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Regards,

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