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[ga] ICANN policy result
Interesting ...
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cn/20020102/tc/internet_shrinks_to_fit_1.html
This might be a result from the ICANN misunderstanding of its mission.
Adressing is not a way to regulate but a way to serve. In mixing the
service and usage layers and in using the TLDs as a way to make petty money
rather than the netsigns of new cyber areas ICANN has strangled innovative
uses and confused both users and webmasters.
It may be interesting to compare this negative stagnation in numbers but a
real relative dicrease to three elements :
- the private sites webmasters (or individual registrants) are still
unrepresented
- the world's large and SME businesses are represented by ... 50 members of
the BC with an unique target: to avoid that New.net might become a member
and endanger AT&T
- the Internet users are denied representation: the @large quality being
reserved to US gTLD customers.
With the resulta that more than 97% of the users are barred from the
governance by the ICANN strategy, ie to my understanding by Joe Sims',
Louis Touton's and Mike Roberts concepts. I may be wrong about Joe and
Louis, but I made this belief of mine clear enough in direct, private and
public mails they did not respond for me to believe they do not think I am
wrong.
Last week's report about 14 majors sharing 60% of the internet usage
instead of 110 two years ago only confirms that tendency.
I do not object that the ICANN pursues its mission creep in supporting
Verisign's and its registrars' survival and as one of the acknowledged fora
to discuss Internet governance issues, but I do think that the IANA
functions should be transfered to a neutral international registration
secretariat (three persons to manage the TLD registration directory, the IP
block list and the Protocol sequence) under the UN EDIFACT or the ITU/T or
maybe attached to the Wien office managing the ISO 3166 list. There is no
policy involved in registring names and numbers in a database on a 1st
come/1st serve basis and in maintaining a WHOIS database on TLD Managers,
IP Blocks owners and Protocol organisers. I am even ready to organize that
for $ 150.000 a year including one or two international meetings. This
money could come from a $ 5 TLD database registration/maintenance free per
entry (with a discount for developping countries).
Jefsey
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