[ga] Re: [atlarge-discuss] RE: PFF blasts ICANN, says Commerce Dept should look into contract

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

David and all stakeholders or other interested parties,

  Thanks David for reminding me of this.  It had somehow slipped
my minds focus.  I was however aware of PFF's position on this
along with their growing number of supporters.  We [INEGroup]
as well a a number of the ICANNATLARGE.COM members
support PFF's position on this, http://www.pff.org/pr/pr091002ICANN.htm

  I also found PFF's William F. Adkinson study on "Let competition
not ICANN Rule"  http://www.pff.org/publications/pop9.21ICANN.pdf
which you referenced below also very interesting as did many or our
[INEGroup] members.
Thanks again.

D McOwen wrote:

> Jeff Williams and everyone,
>
> Declan posted more today specifically on the chant to revoke ICANN
> altogether and have Federal Govt take over.
>
> David McOwen
> http://www.freemcowen.com
>
> >From Declan below:
>
> The Progress and Freedom Foundation is a think tank in Washington that is
> generally more free-market than not. It organizes an annual conference in
> Aspen, Colorado
> (http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/pff-aspen-conference-aug02.html) that I
> have found to be worth attending. PFF received funding from Oracle and Sun,
> if I recall properly, and applauded the Microsoft antitrust suit. Way back
> when, PFF enjoyed close ties with Newt Gingrich, and its current president,
> Jeff Eisenach, was once on Gingrich's staff.
>
> It's a shame that Bill (who I know to be a capable lawyer and economist)
> did not, according to the below press release, address whether the ICANN
> contract should be renewed.
>
> -Declan
>
> ---
>
> From: David Fish <DFish@pff.org>
> Subject: Time to Say "You Can't" to ICANN
> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 17:18:22 -0400
> MIME-Version: 1.0
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> David Fish  (202) 289-8928
>
> TIME TO SAY "YOU CAN'T" TO ICANN
>   Adkinson Calls for Ending Economic Regulation of Domain Name System
>
> WASHINGTON, DC - Should the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
> Numbers (ICANN) be allowed to impose traditional economic regulation on the
> market for domain names?  The Progress and Freedom Foundation's William F.
> Adkinson, Jr.   says it should not, and he believes the Department of
> Commerce should prohibit such activity if the agency decides to renew
> ICANN's contract, which ends this month. While he does not address whether
> the contract should be renewed, Adkinson argues that ICANN or its successor
> should not be allowed to impose price or service restrictions.
>
> "The Commerce Department and ICANN have been successful in developing
> workably competitive markets for registry and registrar services," Adkinson
> writes in a study, "Domain Name Services: Let Competition, Not ICANN, Rule,"
> released today. [Available at
> http://www.pff.org/publications/pop9.21ICANN.pdf]  "Therefore the time has
> come to end price and service regulation of these markets and terminate
> 'mission creep'."  In fact, he argues, "such regulation interferes with the
> efficient operation of the competitive markets that have developed" and
> would be unwise, given ICANN's "serious governance problems".
>
> According to Adkinson, the proliferation of firms authorized to provide
> registrar services, the greatly reduced price for registering names, the
> creation of seven new generic top level domains (TLDs) and growth among 240
> country code TLDs and other factors have resulted in "widespread and
> multifaceted competition" and innovation.  Moreover, Adkinson writes that
> ICANN is "particularly ill-suited" to regulate, "lacks adequate standards
> governing its decisions" and does not have authority over country code TLDs.
> The last point, he says, creates an unfair disadvantage.
>
> Finally, there is critically important work to be done in the areas within
> ICANN's proper sphere of activity - for example, ensuring the security of
> the root server system - that Adkinson says ICANN or a successor "should be
> required to focus its energies" there.
>
> The Progress & Freedom Foundation is a market-oriented think tank that
> studies the digital revolution and its implications for public policy. It is
> a 501(c)(3) research & educational organization.
> # # #
>
> David M. Fish
> VP for Communications & External Affairs
> The Progress & Freedom Foundation
> 1301 K Street, NW, Suite 550 East
> Washington, D.C. 20005
> Phone: 202-289-8928
> Fax: 202-289-6079
> E-mail: dfish@pff.org
> Web site: www. pff.org
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Williams [mailto:jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 6:10 PM
> To: atlarge discuss list
> Cc: gen full; Declan McCullagh
> Subject: [atlarge-discuss] FYi from Politech.com: Weekly column: Be wary
> of Washington's solutions to spam
>
> All stakeholders, assembly members or other interested parties,
>
> FYI:
>
> http://news.com.com/2010-1074-957024.html?tag=politech
>
>     Be wary of Washington's spam solution
>     By Declan McCullagh
>     September 9, 2002, 4:00 AM PT
>
>     WASHINGTON--About three dozen high-level lobbyists met quietly last
>     Friday afternoon at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to concoct a way to
>     drastically reduce the deluge of unsolicited e-mail.
>
>     The invitation-only lunch meeting, which lasted about two hours,
>     started a process that could result in an industry agreement on new
>     laws or self-regulation.
>
>     Lobbyists for AOL Time Warner, Verizon, the National Cable and
>     Telecommunications Association, and the Direct Marketing Association
>     were among the attendees. According to the invitation, the group met
>     to discuss "approaches to addressing problems arising from abusive
>     electronic mail practices."
>
>     All that sounds pretty good, right? After all, who could be against
>     efforts to reduce the heaps of spam that are snarling mail servers,
>     clogging connections and making our in-boxes approximately as useful
>     as a 10MB hard drive? One of my News.com colleagues estimates that
>     spam soon will make up the majority of message traffic on the
>     Internet.
>
>     But Washington rarely has the best solution. When you dump a passel
> of
>     lawyers and lobbyists in a room, dub them a working group and close
>     the door, they end up crafting new laws and regulations. And new
> laws
>     and regulations from Washington simply won't stop spam.
>
>     [...]
>
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Regards,
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