[Chapter-delegates] [MemberPubPol] ISOC response to the NTIA's call for comment on the USDoC- ICANN MoU

[Patrick Vande Walle]

Matthew,

Agree with others that we should insist on end-users/domain name
registrants representation at the board level, in compliance with the
DNS white paper.

Matthew Shears wrote:

> ISOC would suggest, for example,
> that operational authority over the DNS root name server system through
> formal arrangements with the root name server operators is not desirable. We
> believe that the current distributed and redundant way of operating the root
> name servers by a dozen independent organizations is highly successful.

Not sure I understand what we are aiming at. What has been successful in
the past may or may not be in the future. Accountability of the RS
operators to the overall Internet community (and not only to their
hosting org) seems important to me.

> ISOC also regards the calls for more heavyweight governance inside of ICANN
> and for replacing ICANN with international structures misplaced.  

I would support the view of ICANN becoming an international org on its
own, with appropriate control mechanisms to the whole community (ie no
blank cheques).

> Such moves
> would merely increase end-user costs and creates structures that will resist
> the deployment of improved, innovative and evolutionary technologies.  

This is an ideological position. I would either skip that part *or* have
indisputable facts supporting that claim.

Best,

Patrick