Re: [ga] Consumer/Registrant Protection Consitituency

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>]

Dear Joop,
I think you/we should give up all this.

The general "correct" thinking seems to be bound to consider Internet 
participants as "consumers". A consumer means a product and obvsiously the 
AmerICANN would be the producer and the regulator. A consumer means a 
receiver and not a producer what every Internet partisicpant is first.

Such a scheme is so much foreign to the mission of the AmerICANN and to 
nature and the use of the true Internet (I do not consider its e-legal 
version by Louis Touton nor the niche it is for VeriSign) that I think we 
should let it develop untill the whole operation collapses.

Any effort to support an AmerICANN which should probably be a compromise 
between the three options proposed by the ALSC 
http://www.atlargestudy.org/template.shtml will be a failure because it 
will have no coherence with any identified purpose. It would only help 
delaying a necessary refundation.

Jefsey











On 07:01 29/07/01, Joop Teernstra said:
>At 12:06 29/07/2001 +0800, erica wrote:
>
>>NAME:
>>If there is general agreement that we need a constituency whose job is to
>>ensure that the interests of consumers of domain names (Registrants)
>>interests are protected, then its a good idea to ensure that's reflected in
>>the name:  ie. Lets call the proposed new constituency the
>>Consumer/Registrants Protection Constituency (C/RPC)
>
>Dear Erica,
>Whilst I agree with some of your observations, I I have a problem  seeing 
>Domain Name Registrants as consumers.
>An Individual Registrant  does not register a Domain Name to consume it.
>One registers it to own it (or to hold it, if you wish), and to build it 
>up as an asset or an Internet presence.
>Or perhaps to otherwise exercise rights normally associated with the 
>ownership of an asset.
>
>There is much more involved than simply protecting consumers against being 
>ripped-off.
>ICANN is being set up as the wielder of power over Internet presence or 
>non-presence.
>
>In order to make the constituency really representative in ICANN , one 
>wants a constituency of the Holders/Owners themselves, as Individual Human 
>beings (who as content providers have concerns way beyond those of mere 
>consumers), not  as a constituency of "protectors" or organizations that 
>purport to protect.
>These, if truly non-commercial, should be represented in the NCDNHC.
>
>For the IDNH, the challenge is the construction of membership driven 
>institutions, that can truly scale.
>
>
>
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