Re: War of Internet Governance: 1995 - ????

[Jay@Iperdome.com]

At 12:49 PM 11/11/97 -0800, Kent Crispin wrote:
>Bob's approach suffers from the fact that there is no practical way to
>implement it, because of crucial missing pieces.  What is missing is
>any mechanism to assign legitimacy to one monopoly registrar over
>another.  .per, for example, is the 3 letter abbreviation for Peru. 
>If the government of Peru made a claim for that name, perhaps they
>should get it.  Without any *policy* defined the fact that you have 
>running registries is meaningless.


At 12:08 PM 10/22/97 -0400, Donald E. Eastlake 3rd wrote:
>There are a infinite number of hypothetical problems you can dream up.  COM
>is the three letter ISO country code for the Comoros Islands.  So what?  

Ditto!


>> eDNS was a response to the IAHC final draft.  Now that the IAHC has 
>> redefined their role to that of a super-registrar, eDNS is no longer
>> required for other free-market TLDs (like .per) to be entered directly 
>> under root!  As we've argued all along, we have as much right for our 
>> TLDs to be added as the so called IAHC does, if not more.
>
>You can argue all you like.  You don't have IANA's signature on any 
>document, unlike the IAHC, nor were you appointed by the IANA to come up 
>with a solution, like IAHC was.  If you want to get a policy defined you 
>are going to have to get that policy recognized by IANA.


A fundamental question is why the IANA, a U.S. Government 
funded contractor, should be allowed to "give" seven new gTLDs 
to its self-selected representatives (especially when it was 
negotiated behind closed doors, sets up a Swiss-based cartel, 
ignores prior Internet precedents, and is generally regarded 
as an inappropriate power grab).  Why should the IANA be 
allowed to *exclude* already operational TLDs and registries.

Consider for a moment if Reed Hundt, as head of the FCC, had
decided to allocate a portion of the radio spectrum to a group 
that he formed, supported, appointed members to, and had an 
ongoing and permanent role in.  Imagine if this group met behind 
closed doors, came up with an impressive sounding plan, and got 
all of his friends and associates to sign.  Imagine if this new 
plan took radio spectrum away from already operational entities, 
and excluded all other applications for radio spectrum.  Imagine 
if this new organization was set up as a Swiss-based cartel. 

Well, this is similar to Jon Postel's arrangement with the IAHC.  
It was wrong when it was announced, and it is still wrong now.


Regards,

Jay Fenello
President, Iperdome, Inc.  
404-250-3242  http://www.iperdome.com