problem of the Internet

governance    (see vixie's talk yesterday, www.caida.org/publications/presentations/governance2003/)
shared resources need global administration 
universally agreed allocation of addresses, ASes, domain names,  protocol numbers
pending bill manning's multiple-NATed Internet
proposed backbones use RFC1918 space, all customers use rest of IPv4 space as private space
considered harmful: operating heavy machinery under the intoxicating influence of mindbending revenue potential
like .com
heaven forfend the dns root system
sitefinder and countermeasures fall into cyberwarlordism category
can we (socially) increase the set of parties (besides shareholder) that an Internet company considers a constituency
because that's what it will take
but at least sitefinder put the 'steward' vs 'owner' issue on our kitchen table where it belongs!
what can be done to help
may sound a little old by now but: participate!
icann mail lists, www.icannwatch.org, www.arin.net for address policy
join local isoc, go to arin and icann meetings (all open)
the policy process has been taken away from us less than we think
still more than we wish.  but it's no excuse to withdraw
no proposed option has been better