[CWG-Stewardship] NTIA's Role in Root Zone Management

[Jordan Carter]

Hi all, Seun:

On 18 December 2014 at 05:07, Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Jordan Carter <jordan at internetnz.net.nz>
> wrote:
>>
>> Giving both the right to operate the IANA functions, and the
>> responsibility for operating the Root Zone, to the same entity would be far
>> worse in respect of accountability and creating a new massively centralised
>> power structure in Internet Governance than even the current idea of simply
>> transferring IANA to ICANN in perpetuity.
>>
>
> The implementation of the names related IANA functions is largely the
> operation of the Root Zone, so i am not sure i understand why/how you have
> counted this as double rights?
>

Because today, there are two agreements and three parties:

NTIA which essentially "owns" the DNS, and offers two contracts/agreements:
- to ICANN to be the IANA functions administrator
- to Verisign to be the Root Zone Maintainer

If I read your suggestion right, you seem to think folding all that into
one organisation would be OK.

I can't imagine how that would be OK. It would be a giant concentration of
power in one place and would create an all-powerful central institution for
names management (absent massive cultural and structural changes at ICANN).

Even if ICANN transitions to a more accountable organisation in terms of
what it does, that doesn't balance out the very far-reaching change you
seem to have suggested of putting all the pieces in one basket.


>> I cannot fathom how anyone who believes in distributed Internet
>> governance can even contemplate such an idea.
>>
>
> Is your statement above clarified based on my comment above?
>
>

I think so.

Jordan


> But I am a relative newcomer. Can someone who supports such a notion
>> explain it?
>>
>
> I am too and still learning...so will be good to know what i may have
> missed
>
> Thanks
>
>>
>> best
>> Jordan
>>
>>
>> On 17 December 2014 at 19:05, Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for the share... NTIA's role in this may not necessarily be
>>> replaced. One could then envision an arrangement between the operator and
>>> verisign (assuming verisign is still willing). It's good to note that some
>>> of the processes are already automated.
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>>
>>> sent from Google nexus 4
>>> kindly excuse brevity and typos.
>>> On 16 Dec 2014 23:31, "Allan MacGillivray" <allan.macgillivray at cira.ca>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  The NTIA has just posted a document on its role in Root Zone
>>>> Management:
>>>> http://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/ntias_role_root_zone_management_12162014.pdf
>>>>
>>>>
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