[Nettime-bold] Open architecture and the Internet: What is after ICANN?

[ronda@ais.org (Ronda Hauben)]

"Forms grow out of principles and operate to continue the principles they
grow from" wrote Thomas Paine in "The Rights of Man"

The Internet and ICANN have grown out of different principles and
the forms they represent are incompatible.

The article "The Internet and Open Architecture: Determining How
to Replace ICANN" describes the principles of the "open architecture"
of the Internet in contrast to the closed architecture of ICANN.

It also describes the importance of the netizen in the development
of a form to replace ICANN, rather than substituting "vested interests"
or "stakeholder interests", as ICANN has tried to do.

Also the article looks at a recent article in the November-December 2002
issue of Foreign Affairs. where Zoe Baird describes the problem represented
by ICANN, but puts forward but another proposal for a new form based
on principles that are similarly incompatible with the "open architecture"
of the Internet.

See "The Internet and Open Architecture" http://www.circleid/articles/2567.asp/

Also see "Internet Governance" http://www.circleid.com/articles/2565.asp/
for a more detailed discussion of the Foreign Affairs article

A summary of the Foreign Affairs article can be found at:

http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20021101facomment9989/zoe-baird/
governing-the-internet-engaging-government-business-and-nonprofits.html

Ronda
ronda@panix.com

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