NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] ICANN the root of the problem
Now, let me start by way of introduction - I joined this group because
of the statement I see made on the home page, being the "Network
Neutrality Squad (NNSquad) is an open-membership, open-source effort,
enlisting the Internet's users to help keep the Internet's operations
fair and unhindered from unreasonable restrictions".
I call ICANN the root of the problem for all things Internet. The DNS
is a fundamental protocol that must be liberated before people can take
control of any other parts of the networks. ICANN fits the NNSquad bill
of things to be replaced. ICANN is unfair, hindered and makes
unreasonable restrictions. It also is the biggest joke on the
Internet. Years ago when ICANN started it claimed it was a monopoly.
Many participants actually believed the monopoly line.
But this false monopoly is today an international insider joke. Because
of ICANNs failure to recognize the Internet is controlled from the
outside in, that is end user control, it has caused the net to
fracture. There are now some 16 roots operational on the Internet
today. These are major root system that have caused the ICANN single
root footprint to be seriously compromised.
These past few years have seen ICANNs false monopoly lose some 70
million users. At least 50 million were lost in China to the Chinese
Government MII root effort, then we have a number of participating Arab
countries who run the Arab Domain Consortium. A large portion of the
pacific rim is under the i-dns root system. Recently I think there was
a Bulgarian initiative to launch multinational TLDs in Bulgaria. And so
on and so forth.
There has also been a lot of fraud in these fractures. People who think
they can run roots and have no idea how to even keep them synced with
each other. Much of it has become a comedy of errors over in Europe.
At one time the Turkish Internet was run by a con artist convicted of
tax fraud, known to the police, who was once arrested for running a drug
lab in the Netherlands. The government of Turkey was behind the
initiative. Once the news was out that the Turkish internet was in the
hands of a con man heads rolled at the Turkish government and
communications authority.
The Turkish Internet root is now run by a company calling itself the
UnifiedRoot. There was a well known open source guy named Jon "MadDog"
Hall behind them. But now two of their investors are under
investigation for tax evasion and another one of them has perjured
himself in the press. Poor Jon got a black eye out of that.
And even ICANN has participated in the fraud. Their biggest root
operator - Paul Vixie - also caused a root fracture by joining the Open
Root Server Network in Europe. He now is a root operator with them and
provides basically the same service as he does for the IANA/ICANN root.
I noticed Vint Cerf is on this list maybe he can tell us about the
telephone call he had with Vixie when he made that move. I understand
it was interesting and heated. But the bottom line there was that even
an ICANN insider ended up fracturing the root system.
The world is in desperate need of an honest one root system that is open
and inclusive to all stakeholders on the Internet. An open source
approach to distributed control of critical Internet infrastructure.
The experiment I ran in europe shoed that people and companies want the
ability to control ones own network at the root DNS level.
Until that is done, this mess ICANN has created, being the root
fractures will result in more and more violations of IETF RFC 2826.
This violation of the public root concept of one root is causing a
significant error load on the legacy root servers. The last time I had
statistics to examine back in 2003 I found the root servers were
experiencing a heavy traffic load of 98% error rate. This is
significant and reflects the many root fractures caused by ICANN. This
is what happens when the RFCs are broken by the biggest root of them all.
more details here ...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/02/05/dud_queries_swamp_us_internet/
regards
joe baptista
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Joe Baptista www.publicroot.org
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