| | At Large Membership and Civil Society Participation in ICANN |
|
| |
|
|
|
 Salon interviews John Gilmore
posted by tbyfield on Tuesday July 02 2002, @02:05AM
Damien Cave has come a long way. Not two years ago, he dedicated an article about ICANN for the New Republic Online to expanding on the self-serving twaddle spoonfed to him by then-chairwoman Esther Dyson and staffer Andrew McLaughlin -- and dismissing ICANN's critics (including the "ridiculous" ICANN Watch) as "colorful ICANN paranoiacs." This morning, he published a three-page interview with John Gilmore in Salon, and some pretty strong allegations -- for example, that SAIC was "pulling strings" in the process that "ultimately resulted in the creation of NewCo, also known as ICANN" -- get a respectful hearing.
|
|
 |
|
The interview provides quite a bit of insight into GIlmore's and EFF's motives for supporting Karl Auerbach's lawsuit, as well as an excellent overview of what's wrong with ICANN.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
[ Don't have an account yet? Please create one. It's not required, but as a registered user you can customize the site, post comments with your name, and accumulate reputation points ("karma") that will make your comments more visible. ]
|
|
| | |
|
|
This discussion has been archived.
No new comments can be posted.
|
|
Salon interviews John Gilmore
|
Log in/Create an Account
| Top
| 36 comments
|
Search Discussion
|
|
|
|
The Fine Print:
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them.
We are not responsible for them in any way.
|
|
|
|
So where is Salon please? - is it an online newspaper?
|
|
|
|
[ Reply to This | Parent
]
|
| |
|
|
One of Gilmore's suggestions was the addition of more TLDs -- thousands more. ("the policy that would actually satisfy the public interest would be to have thousands of top-level domains, in which anyone could register a name")
Based on my limited investigation of .BIZ -- quantifying defensive registrations and trying to get a handle of how many .BIZ domains are actually being put to active use in offering web sites -- I've seen what I took to be a lot of the former and a little of the latter. The conclusion I can't help but draw from these findings is that more new TLDs may not fix the core problems here. Now, adding many new TLDs at once may be different from adding just a few at a time -- may have less defensive registrations, in particular, since defensive registrations become excessively costly (and therefore impossible) in a 1000-TLD world. But if no one is much using .BIZ, as my examination suggests, then what is anyone going to do with TLDs like .w7k or .nuy6? So it's hard to think that new TLDs of this sort will address whatever problems remain with .COM's market power, the single .COM registry, etc.
For consumer protection and improved quality of service, I therefore can't help but look back to ICANN -- for serious investigations of alleged wrongdoing by registries and registrars, for sanctions against wrongdoers, and for strict guidelines as to what's expected. Whether or not ICANN is up to that task is debateable, but as Tucows recently suggested, these enforcement activities could and arguably should be a substantial portion of ICANN's work.
|
|
|
|
[ Reply to This | Parent
]
|
| |
|
|
Who cares if a registry fails?
Gilmore is absolutely correct. If you create hundreds or thousands of TLDs, defensive registrations take on a meaningless position.
If you feel that new registries will fail, then I invite you not to patronise them.
++Peter
|
|
|
|
[ Reply to This | Parent
]
|
| - Hardly more than 1.5 joint!
by isquat
Tuesday July 02 2002, @12:55PM
- Re: Peter, Are You On Crack?
by RFassett
Tuesday July 02 2002, @03:32PM
- Re: Ray, Are You On Crack Too?
by RFassett
Wednesday July 03 2002, @02:11AM
- Umm
by fnord
Wednesday July 03 2002, @04:04AM
- Re: Umm
by RFassett
Wednesday July 03 2002, @06:04AM
- Re: Umm
by fnord
Wednesday July 03 2002, @06:59AM
- Re: Umm
by isquat
Thursday July 04 2002, @08:40AM
- 1 reply beneath your current threshold.
- 1 reply beneath your current threshold.
- Re: Peter, Are You On Crack?
by PeterBarron
Wednesday July 03 2002, @02:50AM
- 1 reply beneath your current threshold.
- 1 reply beneath your current threshold.
|
|
|
On Dave Farber's interesting people list, and Declan McCullagh's politechbot list [latter site has been down for a few hours]. -g
|
|
|
|
[ Reply to This | Parent
]
|
|
|
|
Thanks for the obligatory pro-ICANN anonymous post. -g
|
|
|
|
[ Reply to This | Parent
]
|
|
|
|
Any new generic TLD will fail in the present very restricted market, if it does not spend a lot of effort and money on marketing.
Why were there no give away campaigns of domains, e.g. as prizes for good informational sites?
Were there adds on TV? Worldwide?
Any coverage in main shows on TV?
|
|
|
|
[ Reply to This | Parent
]
|
| | 2 replies beneath your current threshold. |
Privacy Policy: We will not knowingly give out your personal data -- other than identifying your postings in the way you direct by setting your configuration options -- without a court order. All logos and trademarks in this site are property of their
respective owner. The comments are property of their posters, all the rest © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 by ICANNWatch.Org. This web site was made with Slashcode, a web portal system written in perl. Slashcode is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL license.
You can syndicate our headlines in .rdf, .rss, or .xml. Domain registration services donated by DomainRegistry.com
|
