ICANNWiki:"Philosophy" essay by Marc Perkel: Difference between revisions
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=== ICANN's Role in the Internet Present and Future === | === ICANN's Role in the Internet Present and Future === | ||
You might be asking yourself, "What does all of this have to do with ICANN? ICANN is just DNS and names and numbers. It's a technical group for geeks and policy people with big egos and too much time on their hands." And you might be ultimately right. | |||
However ... | |||
Since an ICANN like organization is actually something that would be predicted by the evolution of the universe as being at least one of if not the earliest Internet service, it is in a position to be the institution where an emergent Internet Governance function might form. | |||
For example, Back in the 1990s I was in the software business writing network control programs for Novell Netware networks. I would talk to guys who were heads of their IT departments and they would tell me stories about how that got that job. Generally it was something like this. "Back in 1979 I was a salesman for the company and I bought a TRS80 computer and a printer at Radio Shack so I didn't have to retype everything and because I was the only one with a computer back then I ended up becoming head of the IT department." | |||
I can see the same thing happening here. ICANN already has a world wide infrastructure and is way ahead of the United Nations or any other entity on the planet and might act as the seed where the crystal grows. In fact we can make it that seed by creating the right kind of infrastructure where the future is a place where humanity can thrive and prosper. ICANN already accepts that it's role is for the Global Public Good which is the right goal to have. All we have to do is build out on that idea and actually define what the Global Public Good is using objective testable standards. And how hard could that be? | |||
=== What is Humanity and what makes us different? === | === What is Humanity and what makes us different? === | ||