[ga] [Fwd: [At-Large] Competitive Root [was: Updates to New gTLD ProgramImplementation and auctioning model.]]

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  As an FYI

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Subject: [At-Large] Competitive Root [was: Updates to New gTLD
ProgramImplementation and auctioning model.]
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:53:19 +0200
From: JFC Morfin <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Hong Xue" <hongxueipr@xxxxxxxxx>,patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
CC: at-large@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Dear Hong Xue, Patrick,
as you know I fully share your concerns and defeated last year an 
attempt to control IDNccTLD allocation permitting this kind of absurd 
behavior. Yet, this did not made them to change tack.

However, I would really be interested if you could (or anyone else) 
quote a text making possible a different ICANN strategy.

(1) the higher the price the more the buyer will defend the seller's 
strategy. Obviously ICANN prefer to make friend with large 
corporations rather than with a few @larges who have no BoD vote.

(2) As far as I recall ICANN is to "foster competition" in the domain 
name area. NTIA says they do not enough. However,

- ICANN was not to be a Registry (I do not know if this is still in 
the ByLaws)
- competition at Golden TLD level can only be carried by (a) 
Competitive Root(s) - it/them being capitalistic, nationalistic, 
people centric?

jfc


At 00:03 10/08/2008, Hong Xue wrote:
>Thanks for drawing our attention on this paper. Given that the new gTLD
>process embraces the IDN TLDs, the paper presents a very surprising, or
>shocking view, on allocation of TLDs. If the paper is primarily on the
>economic consideration, I wonder if the ICANN has any other consideration,
>such as protecting cultural diversity and bridging digital divide, on
>selection of new gTLDs (IDN gTLDs). As a governing body of a critical
>Internet resources, ICANN should envisage the values that are more important
>and fundamental than the highest bidding amount. I echo what has been
>precisely stated by Vittorio:
>
>Another wrong assumption is that monetary value is the only quantity that
>counts.In fact, personally I think that the "value" of a TLD is mostly
>connected to other factors. For example, one is how many final users of the
>Internet will ever use services located inside that TLD; another one is how
>strongly these people will feel attached to that TLD, i.e. whether the TLD
>contributes to build any kind of "community identity" for an online group of
>people that presently does not have it; a third one is whether the new TLD
>will spawn innovative uses of the DNS or enable innovative services. None of
>these is directly connected to monetary value, and it is quite disturbing to
>me that an organization like ICANN, which is meant to steward scarce global
>public resources in the interest of the entire community of the Internet,
>still seems to have such a partial and narrow view of where the value of the
>Internet itself lies.
>Hong
>
>
>
>
>On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Patrick Vande Walle <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
>
> > http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-08aug08-en.htm
> >
> > ICANN has published a paper from its contractor PowerAuctions LLC,
> > regarding the use of auctions to award new TLD strings in case of
> > contention.
> >
> > http://icann.org/en/topics/economic-case-auctions-08aug08-en.pdf
> >
> > I think it would be important that the At Large speaks up. The model
> > proposed in the document is a purely capitalistic one. It is based on
> > the assumption that all gTLDs are created to make as much money as
> > possible. Smaller, community based TLDs seem quite difficult to launch
> > in such context.
> >
> > The mere possibility of auctions will actually generate contention on
> > some strings. The little guys wishing to establish a not-for-profit TLD
> >  will be outplayed by the wealthy ones.
> >
> > A public forum has been established at
> > http://forum.icann.org/lists/auction-consultation/.
> > Comments to auction-consultation@xxxxxxxxx before 8 September 2008.
> >
> > --
> > Patrick Vande Walle
> >
> >
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