At 03:18 PM 7/23/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>"Hello. The Internet self organizes. That's what it does, and
>why it's so big, successful and robust.
>
>The Internet community began self organizing to create new top
>level domains a few years ago and was torpedod by IAHC.
>
>Then, after incentive and support by the US Government, it began
>self organzing again with the IFWP process. This was torpeod
>by the ICANN; many of the players were the same ones that were
>in fialed IAHC attempt.
>
>The Internet is still self organizing, and is currently routing
>around the centralist damage; the people with servers have
>had enough and have gone back to work on infrastructure; no
>more talk.
>
>Thank you"
>
And I'll second all of that. Someone the other day was pointing out that
some entity or other (I'm not a telecommunications organization guru)
runs the 800, 888, etc., phone number system for which service it is
paid by "the industry." Existing and future registrars, registries, ISPs,
etc., could well collaborate in hiring some service company that DOES
WHAT IT IS TOLD AND DOES NOT MAKE UP ITS OWN RULES TO
FATTEN ITS BOTTOM LINE to handle root servers, domain name
lookup, etc. The Internet being what it is, such a company could be
located anywhere that has reliable communication. Parse in the idea
of multi-roots, physical redundancy (mirrors), and also multiple DNSs,
and you have a TECHNICALLY viable system that does not need
an ICANN or NSI or whoever.
You want my domain name? Tough apples, it's mine, and you think
you can pirate it, I'll see you in court. The postulated service company
that runs that technical system takes the data given to it, sets it up
AS INSTRUCTED, and beyond that shuts the hell up -- in particular
not claiming to be able to yank somebody's domain name on whim.
I'll admit to having a problem with gTLDs: .web is fine, but someone
was posing the case in which an attorney wanted "something.law,"
but the folks owning .law charge too much, are incompetent, etc.
So in that area there are problems to be solved, but the technical
side ought to be solved as above or in an improved similar manner
that all the techynerds abiding in IFWP ought to be able to create.
It goes without saying that if the aforesaid "registries, registrars,
ISPs," etc. would ever expect to agree upon what the service
company was to be told to do, they would have to stay miles
away from all the legal and economic crap and act more like the
kind of standards organizations that were also under discussion
recently -- IETF being one such, if I recall correctly.
Bill Lovell
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