RE: Copyright [was RE: [ga] New TLD White Paper released]

["L. Gallegos" <jandl@jandl.com>]

On 21 Mar 2003 at 0:54, Marc Schneiders wrote:

> Who puts up road signs saying go left here for Amsterdam? In my country
> this is done by a member organization, which is large and powerful. I
> assume they get government money to do it. It won't work to say to people
> who are uncomforatble about the way the road signs are handled to start
> their own competiting road sign business. Really not.

Ah, but if someone in the US put up a roadsign on their own property and 
it did not mislead anyone, would it be illegal?  Are road signs 
manufactured by the government?  Not here.  Is there only one company that 
makes road signs?  No.  

The government does not "own" the dns or the networks that use it for the 
most part, nor is it controlled by the US government.  It is controlled by 
users with a majority choosing to use the USG root.

I don't disagree that the utopian answer would be a single root in terms 
of a master list, but that is not about to happen as long as DoC and ICANN 
will not even recognize anyone else's existance.  With countries now 
choosing to operate their own roots, the best we can hope to work toward 
is agreement to not duplicate existing TLDs.  So far, that has been 
totally negated by ICANN per their statements that they will do as please. 
 With their outright refusal to even make simple nameserver changes for 
ccTLDs, can't you see the possibility that some will go toward other roots 
who will take care of technical issues in a timely fashion and without 
argument and without heavy fees for a five minute administrative task?

Leah


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