Real ICANN motivation: Monopoly as a method of stifling Free Expression on the Internet (was Re: Copyright [was RE: [ga] New TLD White Paper released])

["John Palmer" <jp@ADNS.NET>]

> Jefsey and all former DNSO GA members,
> 
> J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin wrote:
> 
> > At 04:58 23/03/03, Jeff Williams wrote:
> > >Road Sighs are
> > >often maintained by variety of organizations in the US, and also
> > >by a variety of organizations in States in the US as well.  Some
> > >States road sighs are made, and installed by prisoners in
> > >State prisons.  License plates are also mostly made by
> > >state prisoners in US states
> >
> > However I do not see why the way the USA maintain their road signs would be
> > relevant to an international DNS management analysis, I thank you to
> > provide us with an excellent image for the registrars, as being ICANN's
> > prisonners.
> > jfc
> 
>   Jefsey, had you read the conclusion in my comments above correctly
> you would have certainly noticed I said, "So, so much for the
> Road Sign analogy...." See again
> refrence:http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc12/msg00839.html
> Ergo Jefsey the comment/argument I made was a rebuke of
> Marc's analogy.
> 
>   Where the registrants are ICANN's prisoners in the various
> ICANN so called "Accredited" TLD name space, is that they
> as registrants have no representation in the ICANN Registry
> Regime.  Hence the analogy Marc made does not apply
> to the registrants.  Is there a registrants constituency?  No.
> Was there an opportunity for such a constituency?  Yes.
> Did ICANN recognize such and opportunity.  No, the
> BoD refused to do so.
> 

All the more reason for people to move away from ICANN controlled TLDs. 

In the Inclusive Namespace, there are no UDRPs and regulations handed down from the top. Each
TLD has its own rules and requirements. If a registrant doesn't like the rules that one TLD operator
has, he can choose another one and with thousands of TLDs available, as in the INS, there will be a lot
of competition.

This excuse that "you need to have some sort of standards" that ICANN uses as an excuse for their
monopoly really means "We want to control everything".  The Internet is a threat to the mainstream media and
other shadowy organizations that cannot tolerate open expression and the freee-for-all that makes the Internet
great. They have seized on the one chokepoint on the internet as a lever of control so that it wont be so free in
the future.

The sad part of it is that their monopoly is really an illusion - any Internet user can obliterate their monopoly with a 
few clicks of the mouse in their Network Neighborhood -> Properties settings. 

Education is important, then, and we are making very slow, but very steady progress. This has been hampered by the
dot-com bubble bursting and other global considerations, but it still moves forward. 

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