Re: [wg-review] Clarifications requested from BoD, Staff, NC, TC, Chair prior to co-Chair elections

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 05:43:25PM -0800, Eric Dierker wrote:
> May I be so bold as to turn this thread back to where I believe it should
> head.
> Clearly ICANN is operating in a monopolistic anti-trust type of environment.

Yes.

> Clearly that is why it is important for it to move in the direction of
> a more bottom up, consensus oriented approach which includes those
> netizens who would be the victim if they are not adequately represented
> in ICANN.

But it is not at all clear that drastic change is needed to reach 
that, because...

>  You see if the monopoly really does represent all of it's
> customers 

The question is, of course, who are the customers? The primary customers
of the domain name system are in fact *businesses*, not individual
netizens -- a very large majority of domain-names in use are used for
commercial purposes.  Not surprisingly, business interests dominated the
consumer side in the DNSO formation process, and they continue to
dominate.  The bulk of the affected customer base, in other words, *did*
participate in a bottom-up process, and did arrive at a rough consensus,
and that rough consensus is the current structure. 

However, the dialogue in this WG is oriented almost entirely towards 
the idea of individual netizens alone.

-- 
Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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