[ga] Re: ICANN's 15 August Criteria for new TLD applications

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Dave, Al and all,

  It is important to understand the many and varied "Market Forces"
at work in various market areas.  The Internet, and particularly the
DNS crosses over many market areas and is to a degree a market
niche of it's very own as well.

  The so called "Alternate Roots" have on the surface anyway shown
only a small interest.  Is this due to constraints put upon these
"Alternative Roots"?  Many think this to be the case.  And the IANA,
and now ICANN to be the culprit of these constraints.  The stakeholders
have shown a great pent up demand for additional registrars, and Registries
as we have seen and are about to see with the introduction of new TLD's.

  The same can be said for the so called "Alternative Roots", which will
or at least can provide for varied and greater choices for existing
stakeholders and future stakeholders if they could directly interface
without policy constraint to the so called "Legacy Roots" in a
"Shared Roots" environment.  Ah, but alas, we have seen the ICANN
Board and the ICANN INterim board before it as well as WIPO
and the large TM lobby do everything it can to interfere with an open
approach to a "Shared Roots" type of environment, where so called
"Alternative Root" systems and structures cannot be integrated with the
so called "Legacy Root" System which is supposed to be a
"Public Resource".  That same "Public" are the stakeholders.  They
are being arbitrarily denied their choice through dictated ICANN
Board Policy....

Dave Crocker wrote:

> At 09:09 AM 8/17/00 +1200, Al Koning wrote:
> >Alternative roots ARE current and resolvable issues.  One of the four
> >principles ICANN has to promote is the Stability of the Internet.   By
> >ignoring the Alternative root systems it contributes to its FRAGMENTATION
>
> 1.  They represent a tiny activity with tiny effect -- except for the large
> discussion distraction on these lists.
>
> 2.  The Net is supposed to let market forces decide issues, where
> possible.  The market has been quite effective at choosing to keep the
> alternate root efforts miniscule.  No additional effort is needed.
>
> d/
>
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