|
A Note from the Future
|
Log in/Create an Account
| Top
| 7 comments
|
Search Discussion
|
|
|
|
The Fine Print:
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them.
We are not responsible for them in any way.
|
|
 |
Are you saying that the agenda of ICANN's next conference, to be held in Shanghai, China, is on the matter of HP Printer cartridges?!!
Can someone please break this down?
What's for March, 2003? Number 2 pencils?
|
|
|
|
[ Reply to This | Parent
]
|
|
|
|
I hear that the Intellectual Property Constituency will then push for a UPCP (Universal Printer Cartridge Policy). Their position is that, as printers are sometimes used for unauthorized copying of material, all future printer cartridges must be constructed in such a way that they will cease to function if used for such purposes. -g
|
|
|
|
[ Reply to This | Parent
]
|
|
|
|
|
Were it funny, it might not be so insulting.
|
|
|
|
[ Reply to This | Parent
]
|
|
|
|
|
I believe Robert Blokzijl uses an HP printer, and therefore must be using HP print cartridges, too. I demand that Robert and anyone else at ICANN with a last name beginning with "B" immediately resign.
|
|
|
|
[ Reply to This | Parent
]
|
|
|
|
|
|
the author appears to equate printer cartridges with Internet identifiers, presumably in protest of ICANN's role as regulator of the domain name industry. an understanding of how Internet naming and numbering systems work (see RFC 2826) undercuts the author's satirical suggestion that HP printer cartridges must be regulated because they are important. printer cartridges are not unique resources requiring coordination to function as elements of a logical network. proprietary goods can, in some circumstances, become akin to essential facilities (e.g., photocopier parts) and raise competition/antitrust issues. but that's not ICANN's bailiwick. yet. ;-)
|
|
|
|
[ Reply to This | Parent
]
|
|
|
|
Life follows art, or the future is closer than we think. -g
|
|
|
|
[ Reply to This | Parent
]
|
|
|
