redefining which infrastructure is the proble [was: Re: On-going ..]

Mon Apr 2 15:16:25 UTC 2007

On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:16:34 BST, Rod Beck said:
> I don't think volunteer organizations are ideal from an accountability
> point of view.

On the other hand, most volunteer organizations are thought of as being more
trustable than corporations or governments, precisely because while often
a corporation or government is wielded as a tool to further some end of
the leadership (usually money, power, or both), it's a lot harder to do
that with volunteers - they tend to be more self-policing.

It's a lot easier to read Spamhaus's motives for any given action (even if
you don't agree with their methods), and make your own decision regarding
their trustworthyness, than it is to figure out why DHS wants control of
the DNSSEC key-signing-key.

(And "volunteer" doesn't imply "unaccountable" - anybody who's been following
the US news will likely have heard that the US Dept of Justice seems to have
this big unaccountable gap in their e-mail trail regarding the firing of
some attorneys...)

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