Flawed Drafts submitted to ICANN

[Michael Sondow <msondow@iciiu.org>]

Kent Crispin a écrit:

> Essentially all the supporters of the Paris draft are registries.  A
> more accurate Name would be the "Registries Draft", which is what I
> will call it henceforth.

This appears to be essentially true. The AIP and ORSC have made a deal with
the registries in order to have a winning draft. And the DNSO.org has made a
deal with the trademark people. The drafts are flawed. Which is worse?
Probably, both are no good. In one case, big business and their trademark
lawyers will dominate the DNSO, through the Names Council. In the other, the
TLD registries will dominate, through the Names Council and the ICANN Board
members. Both are against the principles of equality and community
consensus.

Is there any way for the DNSO not to duplicate the selfish special-interest
power-playing that have dominated this process since its beginning, and
which are reflected in the policies of ICANN, which all the special
interests of the DNS pretend hypocritically to abjure?

In order for anything truly consensual and broad-based to come from this
process is for the participants to undergo a change of philosophy, a change
of heart. But this seems to be too much to ask.