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[ga] UCANN, the JPA and the world's internet
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- Subject: [ga] UCANN, the JPA and the world's internet
- From: "Karl E. Peters" <tlda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:31:36 -0700
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font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family: Verdana;" size="2" color="#000000"
face="Verdana"><br><font style="font-family: Verdana;" size="2" color="#000000"
face="Verdana"> Obama thinks he will fix all the problems with more
spending, but forgets that the government does not earn any money; it only
takes from its people and redistributes it. By taxing business, he thinks he is
not taxing the people; and far too many blind people believed that.
<br> If I get a huge tax bill or responsibility to provide
health care as a private business and can not, in turn, raise my prices to
cover the new expense, I have to fire people to stay afloat. Only by
eliminating jobs does he REALLY give a tax cut, and then only to the unemployed
because they no longer have income to tax. Even his most fervent supporters
will soon be frustrated with him when he finds he can not really keep his
promises because they are simply unworkable in real world economics.
<br></font> <br><br> I hear a lot of talk
from many corners of the world these days expressing hope that an Obama
administration in the USA would lead to an end to ICANN's connection to the US
Government by the JPA, something ICANN seems to want, in order to further some
of its broader goals. <br> As a US citizen and taxpayer, I
could support the dropping of a JPA type understanding ONLY if replaced by the
understanding that whenever ICANN pulls away from any US authority, it is also
pulling away fully from any US Support, visible or not, real or implied,
political or financial. <br> ICANN, as a truly private
company, would then be free to pursue whatever the market would bear as a
competitive entity with anyone else in the world with the same dreams and
ambitions. With a number of root systems around the world today and the many
that would pop up if the internet were set free from today's ICANN choke-hold,
fees and roadblocks to join the ICANN root would either drop or ICANN would be
marginalized as the NetSol of the TLD world, an overpriced and not so
unreplaceable dinosaur. On the other hand, were they to actually compete as a
real business and perform like one, they would silence many of their critics,
even me, and the internet would be a vibrant and growing
entity.<br> In order to keep such an entity from chaos,
however, there must be someone prepared to assume the work and responsibility
for coordinating all the world's TLDs so as to prevent or fairly deal with
collision. The TLDA is set and ready to do just that for little or no fee to
anyone and without favors owed to special interest groups like WIPO or
gobernments. Using purely technical standards and a tightly enforced FCFS
(first come - first served) regimen as drafted long ago by Joe Baptista, the
TLDA would simply look at facts and judge by them. With no room for gray areas,
there will be no darkness to hide in and the internet will finally be
"transparent and open". as we all keep repeating like a mantra we will never
realize under the ICANN of today.<br> So, YES, let ICANN free
from the US umbilical chord. Let it sink or swim on its own! The world is ready
to make the internet work just fine without the helping hand that never lets
go. The TLDA is ready to assure it happens fairly and openly to and for
all. (see www.tldainc,org) Come and join the TLDA public discussion list
if you want to learn more. (public@xxxxxxxxxxx)<br><br>-Karl E.
Peters<br><br><font style="font-family: Verdana;" size="2" color="#000000"
face="Verdana">It will be interesting indeed to see what his kind of reasoning
will mean for the internet. More importantly to me is that if he cuts ICANN
loose from the JPA, that he also remove any real or immagined authority it gets
from the US government, and support it gets from the US people through tax
redistribution. ICANN as a private business will then compete with all the
other ROOTs more fairly for market share. Thier fees would drop dramatically or
they would just lose their client TLDs, and the TLDA would rise up and keep the
namespace clean and collision free. <br> (I told you I never
share my opinions! <img
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