Craig and all,
Craig Simon wrote:
> I agree with Ken.
>
> As I understand her, Tamar Frankel has stressed from the beginning that
> voluntary, self-organized trade associations are more likely to be
> successful if the membership makes a collective effort to protect itself
> against bad apples. This implies to me that members of the DNS industry
> (at a minimum, registries and registrars, root service providers, and
> name service providers) would do well to establish a code of conduct for
> themselves.
Agreed. And many registries and registrars, root service providers, and
name service providers have already provided for a "Code Of Conduct"
for themselves currently. The question might be is that "Code of Conduct"
to be dictated by the ICANN or is it to be market driven to allow for
choice openly?
>
>
> This says nothing of the substance of such a code, nor of how to make it
> binding and enforceable. But I would argue: 1) Members of the DNS
> industry should try to map out and level the playing field by making
> this sort of a formal commitment to each other, and; 2) Internet
> consumers/users deserve a publicly stated standard of reference against
> which they can test individual entities for "bad appleness," and with
> which they can begin to assess the quality of the industry as a whole.
The consumer and the the industry already does that to an extent, now.
What is missing is how, who, and what expansion into the registry/registrar
as well a protocol development segments of the Internet industry are going
to be opened up to various business models, and if that is going to be
allowed to develop naturally instead of by top-Down contrivance.
>
>
> Craig Simon
>
> A.M. Rutkowski wrote:
> >
> > Ken,
> >
> > >rules,standards, codes ... call them what you will but i feel that they are
> > >essential components for insuring confidence in the growth in the registry
> > >system.
> > >
> > >ken
> > >p.s. i feel advocating business standards or codes of ethics only enhances
> > >public confidence. as a CPA it has worked quite well for the profession as a
> > >whole. as far as other internet -related activities are concerned. i leave
> > >it up to them to determine what is in their best self-interest, although i
> > >would assume that many internet industry trade associations currenty have
> > >"codes" to help instill confidence in doing business with their members..
> > >(the bar association also comes into mind here as well..)
> >
> > This is an important, indeed fundamental, set of considerations.
> >
> > The Internet and those who provide Internet resources have
> > done rather well over the years without codes. Applicable law,
> > the marketplace, and customary practice has been sufficient.
> > Your thoughtful response raises the issue of whether it's now
> > necessary through some means of intervention to promulgate
> > and enforce codes for the providers of Internet services.
> >
> > I'd suggest great caution here. The codes of professional
> > groups are generally predicated on some color of government
> > licensing authority. The codes of trade associations generally
> > emerge out of consensus among the members of those associations.
> > In both of these cases, the codes are very minimalist, general,
> > and usually voluntary.
> >
> > It also begs the question, why tld dns registry service providers?
> > How about lower level registries? What's so important about DNS
> > directory services? There are other components of the Internet
> > and its resources that are more important. Shouldn't there be
> > codes for ISP? For public key authenticators? Web hosters?
> > Search services? How about ECommerce providers?
> >
> > This is a long slippery slope without end, and under whose aegis
> > is it to occur?
> >
> > --tony
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