Re: [ga] Text of Letter to U.S. Commerce Dept. on ICANN Reform

["Peter Dengate Thrush" <barrister@chambers.gen.nz>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "William X Walsh" <william@wxsoft.info>
To: "Marc Schneiders" <marc@fuchsia.bijt.net>
Cc: <ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: [ga] Text of Letter to U.S. Commerce Dept. on ICANN Reform


         Stuart said
> > *"A registry by definition has a monopoly, so they all have a common
> > *interest in preserving individual monopolistic practices, so they
> > *don't want to be accountable to anybody."

WXW said

> Oh please, Marc.  I know you are an alt.root advocate, but you are one
> of the most reasonable ones, surely you can recognize that Lynn was
> spot on right in this article, and that the reason for this "protest"
> is clearly because the registries want to attack ICANN for doing the
> right thing with regard to the WLS.

Of course, as often the case in relation to ccTLDs, the staff reaction is
not accurate.

ccTLDs are managers of a natural monopoly, but -say it after me - they are
accountable to their local internet communities.

Anyone who wants to know what that means in practice can join InternetNZ, as
an example, and see it in action. Or in Australia, Canada, and many other
places.

Recognising that there are cctlds where the level of that accountability can
be improved, the ccTLD movement has an active outreach programme, conducted
in part with the outreach and training programme of the RIRs.

We are working also to develop a programme jointly with the GAC to have
regional meetings.

None of this is about preserving monopolistic practices. Its about serving
the local and global internet communities, consistent with RFC 1591 and the
duty which cctld managers feel to those communities.

What we are not going to do is allow ICANN to substitute that for a duty to
ICANN.


Regards

Peter Dengate Thrush
Senior Vice Chair
Asia Pacific TLD Association


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