[ncdnhc-discuss] Internet is global=we need central planning

[Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law]

This is defacto overriden by ICP1 which creates a situation (esp. as
administered) in which only the view of the local government matters.

It is quite unrealistic to suggest that the views of outsiders has any
weight now against that of the local government.  

On Fri, 3 May 2002, Alejandro Pisanty - DGSCA y FQ, UNAM wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> even decisions for ccTLDs are not "not global". A well-accepted document
> such as RFC 1591 clearly states that the ccTLDs are run with a
> responsibility to the local and the global Internet community.
> 
> The talk about decentralization to regional bodies need specify a lot
> better what is going to be decentralized, to at least make sense.
> Remembering again, that coordination is not central planning.
> 
> Alejandro Pisanty
> 
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> 
> On Fri, 3 May 2002, James Love wrote:
> 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dave Crocker" <dhc2 at dcrocker.net>
> > > I do realize just how painful it is to move from general concept to
> > > concrete detail for technical details.  Perhaps that difference in our
> > > experience explains why I have so much respect for the requirement to
> > > provide meaningful detail.  And an understanding of the difference between
> > > meaninful detail and "every single detail one could possibly imagine."
> >
> >    I have a lot of respect for people who can figure out the details, and I
> > have confidence that decision makes should know how much detail to focus on
> > at any given time.    I could fully specify 18 different ways of resolving
> > uniqueness over TLD strings, from first come first service to UDRP type
> > ADRs, to systems that blocked dictionary names but not none dictionary
> > names, to regional allocations and regional bargaining over contested names,
> > to lotteries, and dozens of other approachs, all of which would work, and
> > work somewhat differently.     Or, we could have the ICANN board do this for
> > each TLD string, plus doing all sorts of other regulatory decisions for all
> > new gTLDs that will ever be authorized.
> >
> >    The decision to move things away from the ICANN board doing this is a
> > high level policy issue, which has its own logic.   The choice of the best
> > alternative isn't something that one needs to know right off the bat.  This
> > would benefit from debate.   To suggest it can only be done by the board is
> > nonesense.
> >
> > My preferred system is to have DNSO 1, the current one, and have new DNSO's
> > self organize for regions (such as for example Europe, one possibly for
> > spanish speaking countries, one for Africa, one for the Indian subcontient,
> > etc), and have the new ones take over the decisions that are not global,
> > such as checking out the qualifications of the operator, protecting
> > consumers, etc.     The group of DNSOs would then negotiate between each
> > other to resolve uniqueness issues, and possibly failing to resolve
> > differences between each other, the ICANN board could impose a (least
> > restrictive of entry) ADR to resolve disputes.  The ICANN board could also
> > insist on minimum policies on UDRP and whois, if it wanted to.
> >
> > Jamie
> >
> > --------------------------------
> > James Love mailto:james.love at cptech.org
> > http://www.cptech.org +1.202.387.8030 mobile +1.202.361.3040
> >
> >
> >
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