Begin forwarded message:
From: "Bob Frankston" <Bob19-0501@bobf.frankston.com>
Date: June 30, 2009 10:59:08 AM EDT
To: <dave@farber.net>
Cc: "James Seng " <james@seng.sg>, "'Lauren Weinstein'" <lauren@vortex.com>
Subject: RE: [IP] Re: Icann Hires Former Cybersecurity Chief as New C.E.O. [with comments]
Whatever the original mission of ICANN was we’ve learned a lot since then we need to do more than spawn lots of little NSIs – that’s not competition, it’s just a feeding frenzy. ICANN isn’t addressing the fundamental dysfunction and failures of the DNS:
· The DNS cannot be a directory but adding support for more languages only reinforces that misconception.
· We still don’t stable identifiers – the new gTLDs just continue the tradition of creating billable events.
A fundamental principle of the Internet is that those outside the network create their own solutions. Yet the DNS has turned out to have been a failure – it keeps control firmly inside the network and it’s very existence frustrates efforts to move on. ICANN should be doing all it can to deprecate the DNS. As an interim the DNS should immediately and without any further ado provide for stable handles that don’t have semantic baggage and thus have no need to be reused. It should then encourage others like WIPO and private companies like Google, Skype, Microsoft etc to provide their own directory and registry services
Ultimately we mustn’t have to a fatal dependency on a single central point of failure and control like the DNS. In the meantime we should be doing what we can to reduce that dependency. It should also tackle the failed idea of the IP address that has made routing unnecessarily complicated and assured identifiers are not stable thus leading to the kludge called the DNS.
To put it another way – ICANN is a finger in the dike. We shouldn’t treat it as a solution but rather a reminder that dike is in desperate need of repair. Can an outsider provide the kind of stronger leadership necessary to move ICANN beyond its original mission so it can do what has to be done to assure the continued vibrancy of the dynamic we call “The Internet”?
-----Original Message-----
From: David Farber [mailto:dave@farber.net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 09:14
To: ip
Subject: [IP] Re: Icann Hires Former Cybersecurity Chief as New C.E.O. [with comments]
From: David Farber [mailto:dave@farber.net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 09:14
To: ip
Subject: [IP] Re: Icann Hires Former Cybersecurity Chief as New C.E.O. [with comments]
Begin forwarded message:
From: James Seng <james@seng.sg>
Date: June 29, 2009 9:42:42 PM EDT
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:
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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
> Date: June 27, 2009 11:09:15 AM EDT
> 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:
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> 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.
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> 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
> 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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