[CCWG-ACCT] NTIA Report

[Paul Twomey]

Yes, well said Andrew.   Your logic was expressed at the beginning of 
this process in the Green Paper and the various meetings which took 
place around it in 1997-99.  It is satisfying to see it reflected again 
towards the end of the process.   It is a tribute to the community.


On 6/10/16 3:03 PM, Drazek, Keith wrote:
> Fully agree. Very well-put.
>
> Thank you, Andrew!
>
> Best regards,
> Keith
>
>
>> On Jun 9, 2016, at 11:17 PM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs at anvilwalrusden.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:08:37AM +0200, Thomas Rickert wrote:
>>>
>>> diligently by different agencies and experts. Now we can truly say
>>> that it was not just „us" thinking what we came up with is a good
>>> quality work product, but we got confirmation from experts not
>>> previously engaged in the process. I hope this helps to remove
>>> remaining concerns there might be that the transition could put
>>> ICANN and the operation of the IANA functions at risk.
>> I think this is a super-important part of what we should take from the
>> report, and I thank Thomas for highlighting it.
>>
>> The report, over and over, makes the point that community-driven
>> processes and effective community oversight are the ultimate
>> guarantors of responsibility.  In a network of networks, which is by
>> its very nature voluntary, the only way to ensure continued
>> interoperation, health, and growth is to make sure that all the
>> voluntary participants believe that they get something from joining or
>> sticking around.  This is the deep magic of internetworking: it only
>> happens if we all do it.  If someone tries to take it over it ends.
>>
>> What is wonderful to me in the report is the acknowledgement by people
>> who (it appears) normally work with other situations (companies and so
>> on) that the unusual nature of internetworking requires unusual
>> management.  People not normally adjusted to "Internet ways" thought
>> about this, and recognized that an essentially voluntary system is
>> unamenable to central control, or to capture, or to coercion.  Their
>> analysis provides the basic rebuke to those who think anyone might be
>> "giving up" control.  The control was always, and remains, a myth.
>>
>> I know that some people look at our ways -- of doing things in public,
>> and of multiple plan revisions that seem to lurch from one extreme to
>> the other -- and find them chaotic and naïve.  They are wrong.  Our
>> ways produce results faster, with greater legitimacy, than another way
>> would for this kind of technology.  We may be messy, but we deliver.
>> I shall be forever grateful to have seen this report on our collective
>> work.  I shall be forever mindful of how the crucible of disagreement
>> allowed us to find the pure element of collaborative success.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> A
>>
>> -- 
>> Andrew Sullivan
>> ajs at anvilwalrusden.com
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