Looking at this in terms of a much larger question --
Is ICANN planning to apply this stuff about contracting with
registrars to service ICANN contracted registries to the entire DNS
industry?
That is, do all new gTLD registries have to pattern their business
model after that tof the NSI monopoly (perhaps in order to prevent any
of them from ever becoming one)?
This is a very scary thought, but now the the issue is raised,
inquiring minds want to know;-)...
I ahd been hoping the the White Paper processes were intended to
foster open competition without a requirement for central authority
regulation, but I sense that this whole sliding is sliding down a
sluice into a mill pond of monopoly style regulation.
Cheers...\Stef
>From your message Sun, 31 Jan 1999 12:45:07 -0500:
}
}Well Esther, since you already got jumped on for the eroneous assumption
}you made in the message below, I will let someone else do so the second
}time. However I note that you assume that you will have contracts with
}country code TLD administrators...
}
}suppose a country code administrator decided not to have a countract with
}you? how would you enforce your power? take the CCTLD out of the root?
}
}if you had contracts with the administrators, I gather that you would have
}them with NSI. suppose you and NSI had a dispute. What would you do? take
}.com out of the roots?
}
}do you see any legal need to treat TLD's in equal ways?
}
}
}
}>There have been questions lately about the role of governments vs. ICANN
}>"oversight" of ccTLDs, etc. etc. On November 6, in our cover letter to
}>the US Government, we explicitly confirmed our recognition of national
}>sovereignty. Here's what we wrote:
}>
}>"You asked us to confirm your "assumption that national governments
}>would continue to have authority to manage and/or establish policy for
}>their own ccTLDs (except, of course, insofar as such policies adversely
}>affect universal connectivity on the Internet)." We are happy to confirm
}>that assumption, but we note that the details of implementation of this
}>objective may be complex. It may well be that this is an example of an
}>issue where the Governmental Advisory Committee could provide a useful
}>forum for discussions and advice to the Board."
}>
}>But there is a difference between "oversight" and mutually agreed contracts.
}>We plan to have contracts with ccTLD administrators, as well as with many
}>other Internet parties. Of course, as the letter notes, things are not
}>always simple....
}>
}>I hope that clarifies things a little.
}>
}>Esther Dyson
}>
}>
}>Esther Dyson Always make new mistakes!
}>chairman, EDventure Holdings
}>interim chairman, Internet Corp. for Assigned Names & Numbers
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