Re: Few ideas on preliminary global registry

[tor@wtv.net (Bob Allisat)]

Elisabeth PORTENEUVE wrote:
>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.


 Indeed. I am Bob Allisat not 656-743-659
 or 011-416-588-0670. But my name belongs
 to me and anyone else lucky enough to be
 born with such a name. And it's against
 most reasonable laws to go around trying
 to claim you're me. Unless you are really
 me. So I do have ownership over my name
 at a most basic level. Also I own some
 rights to my business names and rightly
 so.


>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.


 I agree that the common language
 cannot be copyrighted. Ultimately
 this would lead to being unable to
 communicate at all! We would have
 to obtain a hundred corporate
 permissions to write a poem or
 political manifesto!


>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).


 Well... I want the option to be mine
 as to whether or not I want a number
 assigned to me. And I would like to
 decide what name I utilize not some
 yet another huge bureaucracy.

 However - your point about having
 a non-profit, international organization
 to in effect protect and manage the
 "." undefined root is well put and I
 agree with wholeheartedly. How one can
 do this without some international
 Law or Treatuy of the Internet is
 unknown to me.


>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.


 Yes. Very excellent point here.


>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.


 However - in order to achieve some
 modicum of International Internet
 peace some government involvement
 seems unavoidable. What's to stop
 on nation from declaring commercial
 war on the Internet and simply
 hijaking all available domain names
 new or otherwise?

 An international treaty with virtually
 unlimited iTLD's will ensure no hegemony
 will occur. Excapt that of - hopefully -
 common sense and good governing.

                             Bob Allisat

   PO Box 191 Station E Toronto Canada M6H 4E2      (416) 588-0670