Re: [ga] New TLD White Paper released

["John Berryhill Ph.D. J.D." <john@johnberryhill.com>]

>
> Karl, try to answer this for me.  Is it in the best interests of the
> economy to undermine entrepreneurial efforts by simply taking the unique
> product of small businesses and organizations by fiat?

What is it that is proposed to be "taken" here?  If the DoC root does not
have an entry for .foo, then putting .foo in the DoC root does not "take"
anything from anyone.  Nobody is compelled to use the DoC root if they do not
want to use it, and nobody is prevented from operating another root system.
If you want to run your own root, then run your own root.  The day after a
collider is put into the ICANN root, you can still run your own root, and
users can decide which one they want to use.  What gives you the right to
force others to use yours?  Nobody is forcing anybody to use ICANN's.

> Please tell me
> what incentive there might be for small businesses to start up if
> somewhere down the road the government will elect to just destroy them at
> will, with no recourse.

What rule is there that says the government cannot open a refreshment stand
inside a national park, even if there are food vendors situated nearby
outside the park?  More accurately, if I sell hot dogs outside of the
entrance to Yellowstone, then what principle gives me first dibs on any hot
dog concession that the government might decide to run inside Yellowstone?
Why would the government owe me that?

Now, experience in selling hot dogs might be a good consideration in deciding
who gets to sell hot dogs in the park, but I can't see how having operated a
private business with private resources somehow confers a right to be
enshrined in a government-controlled environment.



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