Wampum

I co-wrote, well, actually, Andrew Sullivan wrote, but on namedroppers, the working list for the DNSEXT WG, I wrote the issue statements in a series of notes Andrew was kind enough, and thoughtful enough, to collect, and frame, together with notes by Paul Vixie and YAO Jiankang (姚建康), on proposed solutions, into two notes. The first was unpublished, as it addressed a situation which existed when the ICANN Board disclosed and voted on several resolutions relating to International Domain Names (IDNs) in Nairobi on March 12th, which was corrected on April 7th. The second, published as Comments on "Proposed Implementation Plan for Synchronized IDN ccTLDs", is less of a technical ... shot across the bows, as the prior situation and the dangers it posed had been largely corrected.

The real text is that there are two roots, one operated out of Beijing, and one operated out of Marina del Rey, and managing the divergence between these two roots is the fundamental task of "internet governance" or "technical coordination".