It may well be that there isn't a practical alternative. Perhaps the 
focus should be on protecting ICANN from government control. I imagine 
that just about any government would try to take control if they could. 
Ultimately the People have to assert control.

Humanity is evolving at an extremely fast rate right now and the 
Internet is the core factor in human evolution. Humans understand 
reality collectively and our combined knowledge is as much who we are as 
a species as our DNA. Maybe even more so at this point. I think very few 
people grasp the importance of a free internet in the future of human 
evolution and how vital it is that we make sure it stays free.

On 11/20/2010 4:56 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote:
> Over the past ~27 years we had multiple and parallel attempts of
> changing control of the DNS, establish alternative root zones and/or
> resolution mechanisms, etc, etc.
>
> None of them useful, practical, realistic. Joe Baptista can give you a
> detailed explanation, that btw has been very quiet lately, if he does
> not answer you will surely get some response from Jeffrey Williams,
> and if you checked the NNSquad mailing list you most probably noticed
> that Lauren spends a lot of time talking with ... himself.
>
> Cheers
> Jorge
>
> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Nicolas Adam<[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>> Any reactions concerning the suggestions in Take a tiny first step toward
>> controlling your internet addressing destiny (NNSquad) ?
>>
>> Nicolas