Re: [wg-review] reporting

[Eric Dierker <ERIC@HI-TEK.COM>]

I believe this excerpt from Ms. Dyson's interview inciteful, since she was in
position at the time covered.

Do you know why God could create the world in six days? Because he
had no legacy system. We have an existing world, we have
governments, we have existing business players, and you can’t just
waltz in and destroy what they have built and depended on. I spend a lot
of time in Central and Eastern Europe, and there you can’t simply say,
‘Let the free market take over’ because there are incumbents with more
 market power and people who played by the rules as they were. This is
not a start-from-scratch situation. It’s a system in which a lot of people
with vested interests have already made contributions.

If you were starting over, would you do it differently? You could say that
there could be any TLD in the world, and basically you’re back to ‘just forget
the .com.’ But there is some value to the hierarchy; there is some value to the
signaling and differentiation that TLDs  provide. Trying to make the Internet a
perfect place is a worthy cause, and maybe you should be more radical than
ICANN was, but you have to start from where you are, not from where you would
want to be.


Greg Burton wrote:

> At 11:58 AM 1/31/01, Sotiropoulos wrote:
> >1/31/01 10:16:56 AM, Eric Dierker <ERIC@HI-TEK.COM> wrote:
> >
> > >I do not want to suggest any impropriety on behalf of Ms. Swineheart for
> > >actions taken before, or her current intentions. But I do want to
> > >comment that her most recent post to this WG was a prompt response,
> > >clear and unambiguous.
>
> It was indeed.
>
> >This WG must disassociate itself from Ms Swineheart's "reports" and if
> >need be, from
> >Ms. Swineheart herself.  Her agenda is clear.  Please read Greg Burton's
> >painfully
> >reconstructed Backround of the DNSO review Process.  If that doesn't make
> >things
> >patently clear... I am afraid nothing will.
>
> If you're reading that timeline as an indictment of ANYONE, particularly
> Ms. Swinehart, you are reading more into it than I intended. I believe the
> timeline shows that the NC made several mistakes, but the point of the
> exercise was to show where the mistakes are, NOT to ascribe any agenda or
> cast blame on anyone.
>
> Hopefully, that's clear.
>
> Less heat and more light,
> Greg
>
> sidna@feedwriter.com
>
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