<div dir="ltr">On 4 September 2014 11:10, John Curran <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jcurran@istaff.org" target="_blank">jcurran@istaff.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="">On Sep 4, 2014, at 8:14 AM, Milton L Mueller <<a href="mailto:mueller@syr.edu">mueller@syr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><snips></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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>> There's no clear benefit from having discrete operators, and it<br>
>> would require some very significant joint coordination to make work as<br>
>> successfully as the present approach.<br>
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> The potential benefit might be that the highly politicized and commercialized DNS-related activities would be separate from the other stuff, which is less controversial.<br>
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</div>I do acknowledge that the politicized nature of DNS root zone administration<br>
makes having all of the IANA registries under one operator less attractive,<br>
and some would argue that separation is the logical result. The highly-<br>
interconnected nature of the Internet infrastructure leads me to a different<br>
conclusion, which is that every effort should be made to make administration<br>
of all Internet identifier systems more methodical, rather that hiding from<br>
the problem, and letting DNS registry administration become non-deterministic.<br>
<div class="im HOEnZb"><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't remember seeing arguments that the IANA functions should be disaggregated - but there is so much swirling around that I am perfectly happy to be told I had missed it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>But: isn't the main debate the fact that there is a policy/operations separation for protocols and numbers, but not names?</div><div><br></div><div>And that the simplest, most elegant way to achieve that for names is to put the IANA functions operator in a new box?</div>
<div><br></div><div>(compared with gTLDs and ccTLDs having to form non-ICANN policy bodies... a nightmare if ever there was one)</div><div><br></div><div>cheers</div><div>Jordan</div><div> </div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">
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