[IP] Re: Icann Hires Former Cybersecurity Chief as New C.E.O. [with comments]

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: James Seng <james@seng.sg>
Date: June 29, 2009 9:42:42 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Cc: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Icann Hires Former Cybersecurity Chief as New C.E.O.  
[with  comments]

I have a lot of respect for Lauren for her [his djf]  work on numerous  
issues on
Internet. So I am surprised and concerned about the tone Lauren has
taken on ICANN.

While there are certain room for improvement for ICANN in various
areas, the opening of new gTLD is an area that was a slated goal from
ICANN from its early days of formation of introducing competition to
back-then Network Solution and now Verisign.

Competition and choice for consumer is good. One may argue what the
balance should be, it is another take a position that ICANN is 'one
notch short of scam' in trying to introducing competition to the
marketplace.

-James Seng

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:12 AM, David Farber<dave@farber.net> wrote:
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
> Date: June 27, 2009 11:09:15 AM EDT
> To: nnsquad@nnsquad.org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] Icann Hires Former Cybersecurity Chief as New  
> C.E.O.
> [with comments]
>
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> This decision had been rumored for weeks.  Three comments:
>
> 1) The more TLDs that are introduced, the more confusion there is
>   among both domain name holders and the Internet user community in
>   general (that is, the population of the world).  As such, the main
>   TLDs already in common use (com, net, org, edu + country TLDs)
>   gain in value and demand since they will increasingly stand out
>   amongst the clutter of MOBIes, SEXies, WIMPies, WACKies, and who
>   knows what else, most of which will quite rightly be treated by
>   consumers as confusing nonsense.  The driving force behind the
>   introduction of new TLDs at this stage is creating new profit
>   centers through consumer confusion, and ICANN has become the
>   primary enabler of a domain name regime that we can charitably
>   categorize as just one notch short of a scam.
>
> 2) ICANN is increasingly a white elephant whose original
>   justifications have been warped in ways that Kafka might have
>   appreciated, but that no longer tend to serve the interests of the
>   Internet community at large.  It is difficult to see how it
>   can have any long term future, especially given the international
>   forces in play.
>
> 3) To Rod Beckstrom: You thought things were screwed up at NCC?
>   You ain't seen nuthin' yet.  Lotsa luck ... you're gonna need it.
>
> --Lauren--
> NNSquad Moderator
>
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> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:30:32 -0400
> From: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
> Subject: [IP] Icann Hires Former Cybersecurity Chief as New C.E.O. -
>        NYTimes.com
> Reply-To: dave@farber.net
> To: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com>
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> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/06/26/technology/AP-US-TEC-Internet-Names.html?ref=technology
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