Re: [ga] Under $6.00 pricing by NetSol - ICANN BoD Judgment errors...

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

Joanna and all assembly members,

Joanna Lane wrote:

> on 10/10/01 2:18 PM, dannyyounger@cs.com at dannyyounger@cs.com wrote:
>
> > This is a "must read":
> >
> > http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/registrars/Arc01/msg01333.html
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> Using Esther's argument that the ALSO is a stability issue, equally,
> survival of competing Registrars is also a stability issue, but I fail to
> understand what good the GA could achieve from taking on this issue at this
> stage.

  Esther Dyson fails to understand that having competing registrars is
not the predominant stability corner stone.  The above referenced
URL points that up very clearly.  Hence during the time when
Esther was purporting her view, she was dubbed "The Clueless
One".

  The registry issue should have been addressed long before additional
registrars were introduced.  We are now paying the price for that
gross error in judgment from the than seated ICANN BoD.  We
[INEGroup] warned and strongly argued along with a number of
other groups of stakeholders, that the than seated ICANN BoD
had it's priorities reversed.  Again, we are seeing and will continue
to see the error in this judgment from the currently seated ICANN
BoD.

  The effect of the lack in good judgment of not providing for
multiple registries before registrars for .com, .net, .org, .edu, ect,
is that terrorist only have one registry database wy which to attack
through any number of various means, some well known, others
yet to be even discovered yet.  To add insult to injury, there is
for these TLD's not secured RRP DB.  Hence some of the
concerns that have been very recently (OCT. 8th) voiced
in the US Senate to the NIST and NIPC and passed on
to the DOC/NTIA yesterday.

> The consumer is not suffering from lower registration prices, and
> there are plenty of competing Registrars around for those who do not want to
> do business with VeriSign, so I would have thought it necessary for the
> Registrars Constituency to provide evidence of damages being suffered by
> them before an argument could be made that stability of the internet/
> consumer interests are being adversely affected.

  Not only consumers, but some govt agencies and departments as well
as commercial interests that serve the consumer interests to one degree
or another are also being adversely affected or are open to terrorists
attacks by various means.  Of course again, the than ('98 - '99) seated
ICANN BoD were warned repeatedly and bluntly, but were more
focused on the registrar side of the situation.  It was a known mistake
in judgment than, and may loom as an even bigger and much more
costly mistake now.

>
>
> Regards,
> Joanna
>

Regards,
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Jeffrey A. Williams
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