Re: [IFWP] Fwd: Re: Power Politics and the New Internet Order

[Michael Sondow]

Kent Crispin a �crit:
> 
> On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 11:48:19PM -0800, Bill Lovell wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > In short, the letter code that defines some subset
> > of the nearly infinite domain name space, whether
> > that letter code be "per" or anything else, should be
> > set by international agreement and freely available
> > to every prospective domain name holder to use,
> > through whatever registrar that prospective registrant
> > may choose.
> 
> That was *precisely* what the gTLD-MoU proposed.

That may be what the gTLD/MoU proposed, just as it may be what the
DNSO.org proposed. But what is proposed, and what is undertaken,
have in both cases been in contradiction.

The gTLD/MoU, like the DNSO.org which appears to have been its
reincarnation, said it wanted a universally accessible domain name
space, but then it went and made deals with big business and the
trademark interests to restrict the name space in their favor.

As a result, few remain who trust, or care very much about, what the
gTLD/MoU or DNSO.org, or ISOC, POC, the ITU, and all the rest, have
to 
say, since what they say is belied by what they do and the tactics
they use.

People who are after the public good don't lie to the public and
make deals behind their backs with their foes.