Re: [wg-c] Eureka?

[Milton Mueller <mueller@syr.edu>]

Will someone tell me what this exchange about NSI has to do with
the development of a proposal for new gTLDs?

dwmaher@ibm.net wrote:

> 1.We are still waiting for a explanation of what NSI plans to do when
> it takes its 5.2 million customers elsewhere. You say it's a "metaphor".
> For what?  You suggested the superroot. If you have a further
> explanation, is it consistent with ICANN's well-thought out plan for a
> consensus based organization of the address, protocol and domain name
> functions, or does it assume the destruction of ICANN?
> 2. NSI has done everything in its power to block the successful
> implementation of the shared registry tests, including unreasonable
> charges for its services, an unreasonably burdensome agreement with the
> registrars, and the attempt, from which it was forced to back down by US
> government pressure, to establish a proprietary "yellow pages" which
> would have greatly increased its competitive advantage.
> 3. We all know that NSI wants to see ICANN fail. It is clearly in NSI's
> financial interest to bring this about. Assuming there is some rational
> basis for NSI's statment of taking 5.2 million customers elsewhere, can
> this basis be explained in some way that is consistent with the survival
> of ICANN, or is it simply a manoeuvre to hasten ICANN's failure?
>

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