[ncdnhc-discuss] Joe Sims

[Jefsey Morfin]

I have informed you recently of the Registrants Constituency preparation 
efforts started at European initiatives. The visit of Joe Sims and other 
elements only confirm that EEC, European Industry and Participants are 
accepted as a serious possible threat to the Majors' attempts to take over 
the naming plan, enlighted initiated by former IBM employee Stuart Lynn's 
ICP-3 document, supported by IAB ATT engineers, enacted by Verisign a 
partner of MS in Realnames.

In this the GA, the ALSC, the IDNO, the gTLD mailing lists are important 
focal points where all of us may consider the best common interest of the 
Internet Participants and show the BoD where reality lies.

IMHO Joe Sims lack understanding the very architecture of the network and 
the XXIth century society. They want it legally centralised with GAC 
Members being the ICANN "cops" to impose their contracting strategy to the 
TLD Managers. The nets are not centralized and directed, they are not even 
meshed and managed as the NIC+GAC could propose: they are distributed and 
consensual. They are no block to carve with a few names, they are no stone 
build with, they are sand flowing around.

What ATT/IBM/SAIC/MS are proposing may look nice, may look sensible but it 
so conceptually outdated than it will not survive. And while it survives 
and may develop it will block the network innovation of the largest number. 
It will create permanent operation unrest, unstability and lack of security 
until the day it collapses under the market tide.

If we could organize as structured @large : industries, business, content 
providers, registrants, users, IP owners, in a smooth organization, just 
liberalizing and opening the ICANN existing structure we could cut a common 
Internet Participant deal in the best interest of everyone.

Otherwise it will be a competition unfortunately understood by most round 
the world as "US vs the rest of the world" because the leading opponents to 
people privacy, independance, free naming, technical autonomy will happen 
to be seated both in the USA and in their lack of vision.

As a European, as a partner with American, Chinese, Japanese, Australian, 
Brazilean, African, Indian, Pacific, French and European developpers, I do 
not want to be engaged in a so stupid fight and to waste energies in an 
uncessary dispute of this magnitude.

Even if we will obviously win at the end of the day.
Jefsey