Few ideas on preliminary global registry

[Elisabeth PORTENEUVE <Elisabeth.PORTENEUVE@cetp.ipsl.fr>]

Let me add few remarks to the discussion.

1. The Internet Domain Name System is an IP-numbers-to-mnemonics
   facility and nothing else.
   I do not say: "I was born in 50.03N,19.55E,
                  I live now in 48.52N,2.20E"
   but:          "I was born in Krakow, Poland,
                  I live now in Paris, France".
   The ITU numbering scheme does not use mnemonics, and cannot be
   compared to the Internet.

2. The mnemonics are relevant to languages, and are not
   universals on the Earth. Languages belong to people, and
   cannot be appropriated by anybody.
   Nobody should be allowed to pick up a common name or a group
   of common names from any language and put a trademark or 
   a copyright on it. Remember yellow pages.
   In "Le Petit Larousse" you have 58000 entries, probably less 
   than 20000 different French common words -- less than overall
   number of French companies. We cannot accept that a company
   pick up a common name or a group of common names or a country
   or city name and put a trademark on it.
   And we need Internet people's organisation fighting with
   trademark's, copyright's and intellectual property abuses.

3. Before we start to put iTLD's into commercial chaos we need
   to establish one global registry system to have means to
   control it.
   I mean: Internet Registry Office with global numbering system
   for Internet citizens, Internet Registry Office for companies,
   Internet banks, Internet law and Internet policy.
   I would see the following scheme:
     A company requesting an Internet domain name should first:
     - register its owners or directorate members to the Internet
       Registry Office for Internet citizens and get Internet universal
       citizen numbers
       (attributes: similar to a birth certificate, personnaly I would
        add here geographical position of the birth place -- latitude
        and longitude, as well as a reference to an office keeping
        this birth record)
     - register to the Internet Registry Office for companies, getting
       Internet universal company number
       (attributes: when, where, business sector, relevant law, ... )
     Then and only then an iTLD office could accept to deliver an 
     Internet domain, following some yet to be established rules.
     This two registrations rules should also apply to all
     other existing domains, .com included.
     The Internet law should prohibit trademarks and copyrights 
     on common names.
   All registrations should be at very small fees, yearly charge for
   companies, one time charge or no charge for Internet citizen 
   registration. Fees should be paied to the Internet banks.

   Creating Internet Registry Office with global numbering system
   for Internet citizens could start global population registry,
   something terribly missimg in common situations (I live in 
   France, I was born in Poland; each time I need an important 
   official document I have to apply to get my birth certificate
   and I have it translated by an expensive official office --
   all of it just to say I was born).

4. The Internet is one, and its subdivision into country's top
   level domains cannot help the achievement of the global society.
   iTLD's should be distrubuted all over the world, and not only 
   within USA. The same with Internet Registry offices.

5. It does not make sense to expect the UN or the ITU or the ISO 
   or Santa Claus to solve Internet names problems. These organisations 
   cannot do a job.

Amicalement,
Elisabeth Porteneuve (speaking for myself)
membre du Chapitre Francais de l'Internet Society