Re: [ga] Text of Letter to U.S. Commerce Dept. on ICANN Reform

[Marc Schneiders <marc@fuchsia.bijt.net>]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, at 16:45 [=GMT-0700], William X Walsh wrote:
> Thursday, August 01, 2002, 4:41:06 PM, Marc Schneiders wrote:
> > On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, at 18:06 [=GMT-0400], DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:
>
> >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31870-2002Aug1.html
>
> > Marvelous quote, Lynn dismissing the joint protest of Verisign and the
> > European ccTLDs registries against the blueprint:
>
> > *"A registry by definition has a monopoly, so they all have a common
> > *interest in preserving individual monopolistic practices, so they
> > *don't want to be accountable to anybody."
>
> > Is by definition the registry of registries (to wit ICANN) exempt
> > from this interest in preserving monopolies? If so, why?
>
> Oh please, Marc.  I know you are an alt.root advocate, but you are one
> of the most reasonable ones,

I am flattered! Thank you.

> surely you can recognize that Lynn was
> spot on right in this article, and that the reason for this "protest"
> is clearly because the registries want to attack ICANN for doing the
> right thing with regard to the WLS.

Yes.

> I know you hate ICANN, and I understand why, but come on, I know you
> can be reasonable, and you have to see that here.

I do, as I said. And I did. The point I tried to make, is that the
description of the registries so much fits ICANN too. It means that in
principle Lynn is able to see what he is doing. That is a start.

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