Re: [wg-review] Constituencies, 1 governance and legality

[Karl Auerbach <karl@CaveBear.com>]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Kent Crispin wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 06:12:33PM -0800, Karl Auerbach wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > That does not mean, however, that ICANN is not governance
>
> It doesn't matter whether one uses the word "governance" or not.  The
> reality is that ICANN's "power" is strictly constrained to what
> contracts it can convince people to sign

And since ICANN has control of the DoC DNS, if one wants a domain name,
one signs the contract.  It's called monopoly power and whether one uses
the word governance or not it means that if one wants to be on the
Internet one dances to ICANN's tune.

And today ICANN is playing only those melodies written by trademark and
registry/registrar businesses.

		--karl--


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