Tony and all,
And to carry on your POTENTIAL conclusion to ICANN...
- Esther Dyson will find a Job in the garment district as a sup-hose
sales woman.
- Mike Roberts will likely find in his retirement, a potential book deal
with a potential title, "How I almost Engineered Stealing the Net"
- Joe Simms will likely find some legal job in the "Ambulance Chasing"
segment...
A.M. Rutkowski wrote:
> At 09:20 PM 7/8/99 , you wrote:
> >in your view, what entity would instruct the independent corporation about
> >what TLDs to enter, and to whom they should point? To be sure, point 3
> >(and 1 and 2) may be simple, but 3 is easy precisely because it's cast as
> >a ministerial task. The "hard" part seems to me to be left open: figuring
> >out who instructs the TLD quill holder what to write. Unless you want to
> >go for multiple roots--as many on this list do, but your own msg seems to
> >exclude--I don't see how you account for this.
>
> I don't exclude multiple roots. Inevitably everyone
> will be incented to maximize inclusiveness - just
> as in the telephony world, the directory services are
> incented to a similar end.
>
> The bigger root players will have some kind of equitable
> scheme - maybe a simple lottery is all you need for
> new TLDs plus recognition of those that have long been
> operational like IODesign's .WEB
>
> It may be a little chaotic, but that's infinitely
> preferable to the sterile global governance
> of the ICANN-GAC wrapped around the notion of a DNS
> singularity. The existing 250 TLDs will continue
> unperturbed - so they represent an ample safe haven.
>
> Life will go on. ICANN will join its brethren in
> the great OSI void. Wilkinson will retire at the EU.
> Shaw will find something else putter with at the ITU.
> Government bureaucrats will get sucked into the endless
> traditional sinkholes - taxation, gambling, obscenity,
> etc....
>
> --tony
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