[ncdnhc-discuss] Esther Dyson on the Agenda Change

[Jefsey Morfin]

On 23:19 15/10/01, Dave Crocker said:
>you want to add a requirement that every ICANN proposition work at fixing 
>global social problems?

I never said that. I said that when a proposition is forwarded it is 
considered of it help or not to reduce the financial, lingual and digital 
divides. So people may decide their own prirorities.

Let take some examples:
- the limitation of TLDs: there are free TLDs by aborigene, for NGO, for 
local areas, for professional, religious, polictical, cultural matters. 
This shows that there are people around - may be not you - butthere are 
some gathering around/because a TLD. ICANN is interfering.
- there are TLDs where DNs are given for free. This may make a big 
financial difference for many.
- until recently many Chinese and Koreans were using numeric domain names 
after the number of their zone due to the lack of international domain 
names. The impact of the iDN on reducing the digtal and the lingual divide 
may be quite important.
- the current ICANN DN policy and root server system are financial, 
security, reliability problems which have a cost for the users. There are 
cheaper, more secure and more stable solutions.

Actually the ICANN in its current rigid and restrictive US centric approach 
of the IANA functions, does not foster competition and freezes innovation. 
This has certainly a real cost on the economy and on the peace of the world.

Jefsey