A comment by Esther Dyson -- Icann Hires Former Cybersecurity Chief as New C.E.O. [with comments]

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Esther Dyson <edyson () edventure com>
Date: July 1, 2009 3:57:09 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Cc: "ip" <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:    Icann Hires Former Cybersecurity Chief as New  
C.E.O. [with  comments]

some more thoughts:

ICANN has regulated the wrong things:  By focusing on pricing to the  
exclusion of anything else in the DNS, it has encouraged a market  
where there is no differentiation other than price - resulting in  
competition based on sleazy marketing practices.

Adding a slew of act-alike TLDs won't help; there is not a shortage of  
domain names; there is a shortage of space in people's heads and a  
shortage of differentiation among TLDs.  Adding news TLDs will simply  
result in a profusion of duplicate names registered across a greater  
spread of TLDs.   It's a just a way to create revenue with no  
corresponding creation of value.

I wish Rod all the best, and I hope he will bring some his non- 
paranoid security perspective to the job, along with other attributes,  
such as an understanding of bottom-up governance and the courage to  
resign when he is prevented from achieving his goals.  Let's hope  
ICANN can benefit from his capabilities and will not drive him to  
resign!

Esther Dyson
founding chairman of ICANN

On Jun 30, 2009, at 5:20 PM, David Farber wrote:



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