Michael and all,
I take it that your question was a general one and directed at
this list as a whole. In that light, my observation and opinion
along with the INEGroup's opinion in this instance is a as follows:
1.) The ICANN in it's "Accreditation Policy" is attempting to eliminate
or at least severely curtain individuals of small companies from
freely and actively participating in the Internet as DN owners
or registrants.
2.) The ICANN and the GIP http://www.gip.org are cooperating in finding
several methods in restricting in as much is possible without being
too obvious, to reduce and or eliminate open and free market
processes in the DNS arena as much as possible.
Michael Sondow wrote:
> Joop Teernstra a �crit:
> >
> > Prof Froomkin wrote,
> >
> > >I made a very similar argument in the WIPO process. It's clear they want
> > >people to have to pay regularly so that they can check the validity of the
> > >contact details so they can serve them. No other reason was ever
> > >advanced.
> > >
> >
> > In Berlin I had a private argument with the registrar of .au about
> > Individuals owning Domain Names for companies. He frowned on that with the
> > argument that the DN holder should always be a "sueable entity".
> > He somehow connected that with the argument that, therefore, he was also
> > against Individuals having representation in the DNSO.
> > (perhaps so that they could not object to structures being put in place to
> > make sure a DN owner would either be "sueable" or be pushed out of his
> > domain by regulation such as .au implements--no Individual registrations in
> > .com.au period.)
>
> Neither does France allow individuals to register in .fr. These two
> countries, Australia and France, are the organizers and leaders of
> the GAC. Couple that with the fact that no individuals have been
> allowed in the DNSO. What do you see as the future of individual
> registration in the all the TLDs?
Regards,
--
Jeffrey A. Williams
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Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
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