[ga] The American Joke

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>]

Dear Eric,
You may over criticize the US Govs. I agree with this Internet definition 
but may be for different reasons:

On 11:35 26/03/01, Eric Dierker said:
>So is it the American Joke; yes!

I feel that in the European diplomat's mouth who coined the phrase, the 
"joke" was not US Gov specific but "American" for a broad range of reasons, 
from NSI to ORSC and iCANN. Ask Chinese if they really care about iCANN. 
Ask me if I care: I resolve for one year on my own cinic-root.

May I recall you that the Internet does not exist. It is a no man's land. 
The Joke is that many people - including yourself through your post - think 
it is American. There is only one key thing: IP addresses. And IPv6 is IMHO 
such a problem that only an international agreement by the ITU/T may 
resolve it.

The rest are details which will change every now and then. The Internet is 
far older than the Web and you do not know about the WebTV routing 5 years 
from now. The DNS is dramatically under used in the iCANN's TLD model. Only 
for that the iCANN cannot survive its current approach. Plan A which is 
still open to various TLD systems could allow iCANN to survive. Plan B 
which is scotched to the "new TLD/UDRP/DN" model which is a terribly 
outdated approach.

BTW, would I be Stratton Sclavos I know what would do: secure .com for 
ever, make .org and .net holders afraid of losing their name, invest M$ 200 
in a new DNS system able to squeeze the iCANN TLD model, hide it behind the 
good of the ".org/.net and .com" community, finance it partly with 
".org/.net" afraid owners subscribing a 10 years plan on which I would pay 
back iCANN M$ 5, break the registrars system in setting up direct resellers 
through my own registrar I would do everything to keep in making iCANN 
believe I will share a triopoly with them (from History I know that 
Triumvirates never survive and that the oldest/largest left in the 
duomvirat loses or abandon: iCANN/DoC/VeriSign will end-up as an agreement 
between VRSN and DoC).

Again, bytes are transported by lines and computers, not by contracts and 
legalities. Everything too complex or too rigid which is not written in the 
machine source code will never survive reality and innovation. The 
constitution and the contracts of the Internet are in the DNS+ and 
protocols source codes. Its use comes from the consensus (not the one voted 
by 2/3 of a few activits, but the real one: the one of the market).

Cheers. Jefsey











>This brings me to the point of the Verisign contract.  Mr. Gomez, you are
>doing a great job.  Unless you convince us this is a good Idea the Versign
>deal might be executed but it is as dead as though there were no Verisign.
>It is a tough business being a private concessionaire doing business with
>the U.S. Gov. through an intermediary.  Tomorrow with a new administration
>you could loose everything.  If you think I speak wrongly ask Thikol,
>Rockwell, U.S. Steel, Jeep.  I think Ross Perot could help in this area.  If
>you own stock in such an endeavor watch it closely.
>
>All of the negative talk about corporate greed is really not helpful and the
>obvious resentment of those who have not gotten the representation they want
>is not relative to the agreements with Verisign.  The question is simply
>should we endorse any agreement and thereby give stakeholder credence to
>ICANN.  I am sure Mr. Gomez is doing all this work because he knows a
>contract is worthless unless it is arguably a result of the consent of the
>taxpayer users.
>
>Sincerely,
>
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