On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Chuck Hatcher wrote: > With the new year as a traditional time to reflect on the past, I am > beginning to feel less than proud to be a part of the domain name business. > It seems that in the past year so many instances of registrars, registries, > and ICANN behaving badly have come to light that I have to wonder what the > future will bring. I am no fan of government regulation or interference,
More of the same I would imagine. I have been monitoring this show for some time - at least now 4 or 5 years - and nothing has changed. And I expect it will get worse. > and in the case of the Internet, what government would have jurisdiction, > anyway? But this industry desperately needs to get a handle on the issue of > ethical business practices, and in my opinion this means structuring > policies that will avoid any appearance of impropriety. Won't happen and for that matter can't happen. ICANN and it's associates are very much like a government bureacracy. And as we all have come to know in our respective lifetimes government bureacracies are like tombstones. Example: the Ministry of Environment marks the death of our environment, the Minitries of Labour mark the grave of employment and the Ministry of "anything else" almost always marks the grave of "anything else". The DNS by it's very nature requires open and effective co-operation between internet operators. Under these circumstance it is easy to show that ICANN is not the answer. And this is slowly being recognized by others. The Chinese no longer use the US root system to resolve, no does the various associates of New.net or the numerous alternative root systems. Two years ago non USG root system controlled only 5% of internet resolution. No that number is about 20% - 30%. So I expect someday we'll be able to put a few flowers on ICANN's grave. regards joe baptista
