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

["Ross Wm. Rader" <ross@tucows.com>]

Don't forget that Registry Operators are oligopolies....(?? Thanks for
that MF...)

The problem with employing lobbyists on a full time basis is that they
tend to spend a lot of time catering to every last need of the companies
that they work for. The problem with that approach is that a lot of time
they simply tend to cast empty statements like this.

New note for the ERC: ICANN needs a lot fewer lobbyists running around,
less meetings and less time theorizing on the possible end of the IP
universe. Conversely they need a lot more people that don't run around
at these meetings instead devoting their time to the real operation of
the DNS. Narrower scope? Only if that means fewer self-important people
trying to stay employed....;)



                       -rwr




"There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an
idiot."
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org] On Behalf 
> Of William X Walsh
> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 6:18 PM
> To: DannyYounger@cs.com
> Cc: ga@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [ga] Text of Letter to U.S. Commerce Dept. on 
> ICANN Reform
> 
> 
> 
> As usual, Cochetti is full of it.
> 
> Verisign is angry that ICANN likely will not approve WLS, and 
> won't let them arbitrarily raise prices at the registry level.
> 
> Verisign wants a return to the days of NSI's unregulated 
> monopoly, something they probably thought they were buying 
> when they purchased NSI, and then got a rude awakening as 
> that monopoly has been chipped away from them.
> 
> I rarely ever agree with Stuart Lynn, but his quote in this 
> article was spot on.
> 
> Thursday, August 01, 2002, 3:06:05 PM, DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:
> 
> > Excerpt from Washington Post:
> 
> > The operators of the world's five largest Internet domains 
> today asked 
> > the
> > U.S. Commerce Department to scale back the powers of the 
> body that manages 
> > the Internet's global addressing system. The three 
> companies that manage 
> > dot-com, dot-net, dot-org, dot-de and dot-uk told Commerce 
> Department 
> > Undersecretary Nancy Victory that the Internet Corporation 
> for Assigned Names 
> > and Numbers (ICANN) should be reined in. 
> > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31870-2002Aug1.html
> 
> > The full text of the letter: 
> > http://www.centr.org/news/CENTR-ICANN-statement.html
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