Re: [ga] Casting stones

["Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>]

I think there are many other alternatives.  I agree that simply expecting
Congress to pull rabbits out of some hat and solve all these problems is
not realistic.  The challenge is to design better (and even more truly
international) structures that can also achieve substantial buy-in.  I
think that is do-able. But this is not the forum for that discussion.

On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Thomas Roessler wrote:

> On 2002-08-06 18:20:21 -0400, Michael Froomkin wrote:
> 
> And what's your perspective for the future?  Replacing ICANN?  By  
> what?  Direct government oversight over Verisign?  How realistic is  
> that?
> 
> All this talk about a re-bid, or about working around ICANN,  
> ultimately boils down to the suggestion to replace the lobbyist  
> battleground called ICANN by the lobbyist battleground called  
> Capitol Hill.  Same players, different coast.  How's that an  
> improvement?
> 
> Bad enough, you don't seem to have any plans for the event that the  
> battleground remains at the West Coast.  What's the NGO community  
> going to do when ICANN reform actually happens, and the DoC renews  
> the MoU?  Still continue to lobby for a "re-bid", focus on the meta  
> level, and let Intellectual Property interests dominate part of the  
> debate down on the detail levels where policy and architecture (*)  
> are made?  (Yes, I know that things are more complicated.)
> 
> As I wrote you earlier today: The argument that people don't listen
> is a hell of a lot more credible when you have said something. Not 
> in year 1, but now.
> 
> (*) Used like Lessig does it. Think, for instance, about thick vs.   
> thin registry.  Thick registry does, in particular, mean that you  
> can do some jurisdiction shopping as far as privacy of registrants  
> is concerned.  That's much more difficult with a thin registry.
> 

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