[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] OT Re: An important technical consideration about nature of the service (was Re: The overflowing list )

Andrew Sullivan ajs at anvilwalrusden.com
Mon Jul 25 18:10:58 UTC 2016


On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 08:04:17PM +0530, Sivasubramanian M wrote:

> ICANN Coordinates the allocation of Names and Numbers, by policies and
> programs​. "Rule" may be a strong word here, slipped in from the question
> that I was answering, it is coordination, and the coordination happens by
> agreements. If it coordinates the allocation, it ought to consider itself
> responsible for all aspects concerning how fairly these resources are
> allocated, and ICANN especially ought to pay attention to the aspects
> related to DNS data.

I think you will discover that quite a few of us spent a lot of time
during the CCWG-Accountability work ensuring that the Mission was
quite clear that ICANN does not "coordinate" the DNS beyond the root
zone and certain subordinate policies in zones delegated according to
contracts with ICANN.  ICANN most definitely does not coordinate the
allocation of names worldwide.  The _whole point_ of the DNS is to
prevent such centralization in the interests of ensuring
administration is local (loosely speaking, network topologically) to
the affected parties.

> By your question, "what rules does ICANN make about DNS", are you implying
> that DNS is free for all, in a commercial sense?

Yes, actually, it is, and that's a feature and not a bug.

A

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