Karl and all,
Precisely right Karl! And ICANN does not seem to embrace this
approach. As a result I fear we will be doing this all over again,
or world governments will be so intrinsically involved as to take
over the regulation process. In fact we are already seeing some
of this and given the recent DOS attacks, it is likely that government
direct involvement is likely to become more intrusive.
Some of these desires to not having regulation are well founded to
be sure. As is the heavy hand of government imposed or legislative
regulation. The "Cybersquatting Act" is only one example of such
government regulation. I think you are not going to see a
"Anti Hackers Act" soon. Next after this will be some sort of
regulation on Content.
Industry's in other areas are too slow or not reasonably able to
do self regulation in many instances. The de-regulation of the Air
Line industry is a good example. What we as members of the Internet
community need to do is be more open and responsible so as to
insure that self regulation is fair, open, accountable, and viable. ICANN
has thus far failed in most of these areas in building Self Regulation,
as we have all already seen. ICANN is more interested in Political
agenda rather than the "Substance" in which Esther Dyson has hampered
on so strongly. This is what I call "Bad Spin" creates sometimes.
Karl Auerbach wrote:
> > .... The
> > fundamental complexity in this situation stems from the fact that the
> > Internet is largely owned by private interests. To be concrete, Old
> > Harry doesn't have any right to tell me how to run my computers
>
> The airplanes and ships of the world are largely owned by private
> interests. Yet there are very strong regulations that say exactly how they
> shall be flown or sailed.
>
> Regulation of the Internet is both legitimate and proper. The question is
> by whom, over what, what the regulations shall be, and what processes are
> used to apply them.
>
> --karl--
Regards,
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