RE: [ga] Re: iCANN's protection

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

I disagree. ICANN is a private corp with an advisory contract to DOC. It is
trying to transition to actual management. That is ... all there is. It is
failing at that task (IMHO).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: JandL [mailto:jandl@jandl.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 7:16 PM
> To: Thomas Roessler; Dave Crocker
> Cc: ga@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [ga] Re: iCANN's protection
> 
> 
> A public utilities commission is government.  ICANN is private, but 
> acting as government.  It is, in fact, acting like a monopoly in the 
> rootzone business and attempting to control who can or cannot 
> participate in the industry.  It is acting like government in setting 
> policy that citizens (users) must comply with, but who have no real 
> representation in that government.  So it is more like a dictatorship 
> with advisors.  It is something undefined in law that can create 
> policies that act and look like law by fiat and that supercedes law.
> 
> > At 02:04 PM 4/18/2001, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> > > > I'm sorry, but I think your analysis of ICANN-as-monopoly is
> > > > *very* far from describing ICANN's real behavior or its real
> > > > nature or even it's possible nature. I think a far better model
> > > > for ICANN would be a professional society, or a 
> industry standards
> > > > body.
> > >
> > >Let's diregard the USG's role, and let's look at the 
> product ICANN is
> > >offering to the public: The root zone file.  ICANN is currently the
> > >only source for a generally-accepted root zone, that is, ICANN is a
> > >(probably natural) monopoly on the market to root zone files.
> > 
> > 
> > Let's just check a question about the use of the term "monopoly".
> > 
> > There is a type of oversight body, sometimes called a "public
> > utilities commission".  It does not provide direct service; 
> rather it
> > oversees the work and pricing of those organizations that DO provide
> > service.  I have never heard anyone refer to such a commission as a
> > monopoly.
> > 
> > Please explain why you DO refer to a public utilities 
> commission as a
> > monopoly.
> > 
> > If you do not refer to them that way, then please explain the
> > operational differences between the role and style of ICANN, versus
> > such a commission.
> > 
> > d/
> > 
> > 
> > ----------
> > Dave Crocker   <mailto:dcrocker@brandenburg.com>
> > Brandenburg InternetWorking   <http://www.brandenburg.com>
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> > 
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