> And that's exactly the problem. We had an excellent, working model for a
> process
There's the old line, One should not inquire too deeply into the making of
either sausage or legislation.
Whatever process evolves to govern the internet will be complicated and
full of votes and review structures. It will appear ugly to those who
long for the perceived beauty of consensus style mechanisms.
Even the IETF has evolved away from those halcyon days ... In the old
days, we simply published and if it was good enough everybody knew what
was a standard. Now there are various phases of publication, phases of
review, phases of comment, mandatory intellectual property statements, etc
etc.
> >As for the delay that these discussions are causing -- well, yes, I am
> >still paying $35/year to NSI for my domain registrations. But other than
> >that, I don't see much harm in discussion.
>
> You will. But by then it will be too late.
>
> And, of course, you won't appreciate your own role in creating that harm.
As far as I see it, the only harm in taking time to think and to build
appropriate structures is that we are paying NSI $35/year as opposed to
paying some unknown other entity some unknown other amount.
Much as I dislike NSI, I'd rather pay the dollars while we figure out how
to build a workable system of Internet Governance.
For ICANN's board to run roughshod over the not-yet-existing membership
and the not-yet-existing Domain Name Supporting Organization, usurping the
privileges and rights of both, in order to adopt a worldwide supranational
law of domain names and trademarks is not a way to begin that system of
governance.
So, OK, I'm creating harm.
But it is a little, small harm when compared to the much greater harm of
precipitious adoption of a worldwide regime that vastly extends
trade/service mark rights without ever having those rights considered by,
much less adopted by, any legislative body anywhere in the world.
WIPO is a long, long way from "running code". So what's the rush to adopt
it and impose it with finality on everybody on the net?
--karl--
