Re: 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: Adam Peake <ajp () glocom ac jp>
Date: July 1, 2009 12:33:41 PM EDT
To: <edyson () edventure com>, dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] A comment by Esther Dyson --     Icann Hires Former   
Cybersecurity Chief as New C.E.O. [with  comments]

Esther,

It's tempting to ask what would you have done differently, but that  
would be mean -- you started with no money, no organizational  
structure to get work done, while inheriting a working process whose  
chief architect and touchstone sadly passed away just as things were  
getting started, and a long and complicated to do list that got longer  
every month from the moment you took charge.

And ICANN hasn't yet broken anything, is 10 years old, is now self- 
supporting, and perhaps almost free of the U.S. (operationally...  
perhaps.) Has overcome attacks from just about every sector --nation  
states in the UN and a barrage of bull from the ITU-- except from ISPs  
and Internet industry which have quietly carried on with a working  
DNS.  ICANN has much wrong with it, but it's also quite a success,   
and is still young. So be pleased with it.

I disagree about there being no shortage of domain names, or is there  
no need for IDNs?

Based on your experience what should Rod do now?

Best,

Adam





At 11:57 AM -0400 7/1/09, David Farber wrote:
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> 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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