> In his opening speech here at the Icann Brussels meeting, Beckstrom stresses > that the central role of Icann is the security and stability "of the > Internet". Wow, I thought that it was just the name/addressing system. > > Megalomanous discourse summarizes his speech... It is very concerning that many involved in management an governance of ICANN still don't have a clear understanding about what ICANN role and mandate is or worse they are trying to steer its role influenced by special interests. It seems that Rod wants to have the DNSCERT under his umbrella when it is clearly out of the scope of ICANN and there is not much support and agreement about the need and how to implement a DNSCERT. Another issue to think about is to see if at some time will be possible to disengage IANA from ICANN and assign the IANA role to non-US centric and not ICANN controlled/staffed international organization. BTW, for those that had a chance to participate at the ATRT meetings, what is the overall perception about the constituency of that group ? Have fun over there, don't have much time to participate this time but I'm keeping an eye on some issues. Regards Jorge