[CCWG-ACCT] Fwd: FW: ICANN Board Comments on Third CCWG-Accountability Draft Proposal on Work Stream 1 Recommendations

[Eric Brunner-Williams]

Nigel,

Our problem domain is a subset of signaling, obviously signaling between 
two or more, necessarily disjoint, parties. The problem domain has been 
around for a very long time, and instances of computer-to-computer 
communication, a subset closer to our present interest, greatly predate 
the adoption of iso3166-1, and also the conversion to IPv4.

Were we to retain the initial problem point of view, any means to signal 
changes of state between two or more parties, a binary semaphore, would 
suffice. However, agreements for the representations of octal-valued, 
hexadecimal-valued, and eventually Latin script letters and Hindu-Arabic 
base10 digits developed autonomously, and some were adopted by those 
working on communicating systems.

We can, without fear of contradiction, state that communication of 
information encoded generally as finite symbol sets corresponding to 
scripts in which human languages are communicated, is an interest which 
predates the invention of nation states, and is at the core of our 
little part of the signaling problem domain -- signaling between two or 
more devices, where the signaling is packetized and transmitted over the 
routing infrastructure (requiring allocation of address identifiers), 
and may, as an ancillary feature, consist in part or in whole, of text, 
some of which may be associated with an allocated address identifier as 
an allocated name identifier, for the convenience of the communicants.

We can therefore, again, without fear of contradiction, state that 
restricting the support for finite symbol sets to exclude some scripts, 
and therefore some human languages, is inconsistent with the general 
design principle. Thus we have an interest which is general within the 
problem domain of distributed systems, in particular those which are DNS 
aware, for which no necessity exists to identify this interest with an 
iso3166-1 code point allocated actor.

Eric Brunner-Williams
Eugene, Oregon

On 12/26/15 4:48 AM, Nigel Roberts wrote:
>
> Public interest (except in an academic sense) is defined by what the 
> relevant public authority thinks is the public interest. And the 
> relevant public authority is a construct of the nation-state.