Re: [ga] "All roots" (Re: Additional Mailing Lists)

[Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us>]

Patrick Corliss writes:
 > Can you be specific, please, not necessarily by answering Kristy's
 > post but by stating why you think there are no policy implications
 > for alternative roots?
 > 
 > In other words, if you are saying the subject is not worthy of
 > discussion then why is much of this list taken up with discussing it?
 > As I said, it would free up the main list.

The subject is not worth discussing because there can never be an
accomodation with the so-called "alternate" roots.  The only people on
this list who want to talk about the subject are those who have a vested
interest in one so-called "alternate" root or another, in other words
those with a conflict of interest with ICANN.

There is nothing to be gained by re-hashing the same old tired arguments
that have already been re-hashed on every single mailing list that has
anything remotely to do with this whole process (e.g., IAHC, white
paper, etc., etc., ad naseaum).  What are the possible outcomes of any
discussion of the so-called "alternate" roots?

o ICANN BoD agrees that the so-called "alternate" roots represent a
  legitmate claim on the namespace and grandfathers them in.

o ICANN BoD maintains their existing policy that the so-called
  "alternate" roots represent nothing more than what they claim and have
  always claimed, namely an alternate view of a global namespace,
  perfectly reasonable in a free market.

There is absolutely no reason to believe that ICANN will ever change
their position, no matter how many so-called "alternate" root
sympathizers manage to yell and scream on the GA list or in any working
group.  There is no logical reason to continue to discuss this matter
which has already been beaten to death over and over and over and over
and over and over again and again and again and again...

 > The other alternative is to keep ruling it "off topic" and banning
 > almost everybody.  I am not sure the GA would agree to impose that
 > sort of a role on the list monitors.

It is off-topic because there is no new information to add to a subject
which everyone has already made up their minds on.  Every single person
who is calling for the discussion has a vested interest in seeing one or
another of the so-called "alternate" roots succeed, probably because
they have some monetary stake in it.  Everyone else thinks that there is
absolutely nothing to discuss because the so-called "alternate" roots
have always been free to publicize their own private namespaces and they
have always been free to promote their views in every other forum they
want, especially in the commercial marketplace, the only forum that
matters.

 > BTW I have only included multilinguals to the extent that they are
 > running alternative roots as I thought, with respect, should have
 > been obvious.

Multilingual DNS is a technical issue that does not belong in a
political forum.

/Joe
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