re ICANN Likely to Approve "Dot-Ex-Ex-Ex" Domain for Chumps!

[Dave Farber <dfarber () me com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Karl Auerbach <karl () cavebear com>
> Date: June 24, 2010 7:17:45 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] ICANN Likely to Approve "Dot-Ex-Ex-Ex" Domain for Chumps!
> Reply-To: karl () cavebear com

> More details at
> http://kierenmccarthy.com/2010/06/24/dot-xxx-to-be-approved-tomorrow/
>
> Of course ICANN's approach might be viewed as a polite kiss of death in that ICANN will hand the matter over to its 
> committee of national governments who, I suspect, will do what they do best - engage in endless political posturing 
> without ever reaching even a stable point of view much less a consensus or agreement.
>
> As for Lauren's objections - his points have strength if one believes that ICANN is a proper overlord of the internet 
> that is empowered to decide for us what is good and what is not.
>
> But that means that one accepts ICANN as having legitimate authority.
>
> I do not accept that ICANN is our anointed mommy of the net that has the life and death power over how the principal 
> naming system of the internet can be used and by whom.
>
> Had something like ICANN been in existence in the late 1960's it is likely that there would never have been packet 
> switching - that would have been viewed as too disruptive and too much a threat to the established telcos - and we 
> would today be living in world composed of ISDN circuits.
>
> ICANN's size and budget are on an expansive curve that will soon approach, and may even exceed, that of the ITU.
>
> ICANN already costs internet users around a billion $US a year in unearned, fiat registry fees that flow directly to 
> Verisign and other "registries".
>
> And yet internet users still have no concrete power or role in ICANN except to watch and listen.
>
> ICANN was established to assure the technical stability of the upper tiers of the domain name system - to assure that 
> domain name query packets are promptly, efficiently, and accurately turned into domain name response packets without 
> bias against any query source or query subject.
>
> By that metric ICANN has bloated itself beyond recognition in areas beyond its remit and has withered into near 
> vacuousness in those matters for which it was established.
>
>               --karl--



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