Re: [ICANN-EU] ICANN Q&A Forum

["Griffini Giorgio" <grunz@tin.it>]

> Giorgio,
> IMHO we talk about the most important issue. The point is not
> technical, nor legal, nor privacy, etc. The point is how to proceed.
> 
I understand the concern but I think that IP addressing issues will be easier 
to solve (or get some 'sort of' solution even if maybe not so cute or definitive)
because such problem just falls almost entirely into the technical field. 
I'm mostly instead worried about 'domain names system issues' because it 
actually involves also non-technical parties (jurisidtion,Int. prop.)  and many 
of these have very different positions on such issues. I think that if we will 
finally have a solution it will be of technical nature (finally putting the 
'identification and visibility' concern more appropriately into a directory 
system instead that into a flat label space domain). 
Sufferings from DNS faults are already in place while the need of having each 
square mm of the earth IP addressable is not a same level concern (I think) 
because there are currently ways to overcome to such miss.
We are all used to run private IP networks for years so we all know how to 
create a 'private subaddressing' domain and how to have it anyway 
interoperate with the outer internet. 
I agree that is better to prevent rather than cure but I think we actually are 
urged to cure the DNS system first otherwise its faults will lead to have 
several different network isles and this will make any other effort on 
worldwide fairness of addressability even more worthless.

> Certainly agressiveness is of no use, but the problems I feel
> ahead will translate in far more than agressiveness: and the
> people who will have to manage them for the world have to be able
> to stand far more than some impertinent remarks from Jeff Williams!
> Or to have very strong shoulders the day the world will discover
> they failed at sorting out an acceptable compromise/consensus
> about what is reasonably going to be used as universal IDs
> for people, machines, credit cards, telephone, etc.. alike.

The world is used to live with differencies in tecnology 'standards' and altough 
it will be better to have as small differencies as possibile I'm prepared to live 
with. And I'm actually doing it for example by coping with NTSC, PAL, 
SECAM television systems.
A sentence I like most to play is " The real good thing about 'standards' is 
that there are many to choose from".
This may sound sarcastic but it is very quite true...:-)

Best regards
Giorgio Griffini