Re[2]: [ga] New top-level internet addresses come with $100, 000-plus price tag

[JFC Morfin <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:27 30/06/2008, Karl Peters - TLDA wrote:

> Mr. Gaetano,                        (ICANN)
> This means the object lesson worked, to some degree, at least. You 
> would not sign his name on your e-mails because you know that would 
> be confusing and even be consodered as theft of his personal product 
> or identity, right? Great! Can ICANN learn this lesson BEFORE they 
> auction off known colliding TLDs?

Actually his reasons for not to be confused with me may be different 
:-)  but never mind, the important point is confusion. I suppose 
Roberto grasps it. Now, the problem is that we are at an equilibrium 
because all the actors are agreeing to respect the status quo. For 
example, threre is a long time the Internet would not work properly 
if spammers could not use it. They would retaliate.

My real fear is that ICANN engages itself in a TLD war by ignorance 
while it seems it does not understand well how the DNS works. I am 
afraid because it is certainly difficult and costly to build a TLD, 
but it is so easy to destroy it. When you think it took six months or 
so, to discover that someone took the ICANN former root server 
address and resolved ....

They are lawyers, diplomats, politicians, etc. not DNS operators. 
Happily, their slowlyness and money greed will delay the things and 
potect the internet in the meabwhile. IMHO when they start collecting 
the TLD projects' money the network will have changed. If they do not 
make too much errors, their move can even help keeping the market 
quite and protect us when introducing gcTLDs (geocultural suffixes).

jfc