[lacnog] Fwd: Re: Blocking International DNS

[Fernando Gont]

Estimados,

FYI, en estos dias hubo un thread interesante en la lista de NANOG sobre
la administración de la raiz del DNS, esquemas alternativos, etc.

Les reenvio un post de Jorge Amodio (CC'ed). Me parecio interesante
compartirlo con la lista....

Saludos,
Fernando Gont




-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Blocking International DNS
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 21:37:47 -0600
From: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio en gmail.com>
To: Marshall Eubanks <tme en americafree.tv>
CC: North American Network Operators Group <nanog en nanog.org>

> And I have too many bad memories of Alternic
> to feel comfortable about Peter Sunde's P2P ideas.

IMHO, there is a basic and fundamental flaw on many of the "alternate"
schemes. The current "DNS ecosystem" has been feeding the pockets of
many for many years and became what a ~$7B? industry ? many folks are
making a living out of it, so any alternate solution that doesn't take
seriously in account the economic side will encounter high resistance
to change.

Also, who you will really trust to run it ?

> Balancing all of that, internationalizing ICANN may be the best solution.

ICANN is not the problem. It is itself a problem because over the
years instead of being a technical coordinator for names and numbers
became the playground and clearinghouse for IP (Intellectual Property)
groups, all sorts of color, sizes and shapes of attorneys milking from
the "DNS ecosystem" and Internet Governance wanna be politiks.

Also while different segments may have some level of participation
(including folks that claim they represent the users which they do
not) by design ICANN is a membership less organization so the multi
stake holder model is a lie and the bottom up process when the bottom
does not have the same level of resources to participate as some of
the big corp/lobby groups, ends being a fiasco.

With the current architecture what you need to internationalize is
IANA, but who you will trust with that ? ITU ?

As I commented in other forums, I believe that what we need is a novel
and well thought resource directory and location service/protocol
where central authority and uniqueness are not fundamental
requirements, and as said before something that on the long run can be
monetized in a way that creates an economic incentive for people to
use it.

Meanwhile, as Randy said, our only option is to keep dealing with the
current system.

Regards
Jorge