Re: [ga] More on Sitefinder suspension

["Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

comment below

----- Original Message -----
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@xxxxxx>
To: Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Karl:
> > 2. I see few republics condemn communities who do have managed to
> > establish direct democratic systems.  Yet the catholic root
> > community seems to take every chance to deamonize the even the
> > concept of competing roots.
>

Steph:
> Any sign of active repression from ICANN? (Besides ICP-3, I mean.)
>

Well the bulldozing aside of .biz was a pretty repressive action... we have
the power to do it, therefore we will do it... regardless of honest people
already doing honest business with the already established .biz

We already had .com ... what did we need the virtually identical .biz for...
the fact that .biz is hardly used by the commercial community (who prefer
.com) suggests that this confusion over .biz was unnecessary and probably
deliberate

In a situation where the dominant DNS is controlled by one state through its
quango ICANN, and the governance seems to be autocratic, the case for
competing roots is strengthened

I believe ICANN acts repressively in all kinds of directions, mainly because
it refuses to surrender actual power to others... it is in the business of
representing the interests of a limited set of powerful groups and agencies,
first among whom is DoC

This is not contingent with the worldwide public interest which it purports
to defend

ICANN is institutionally, by its very reason for existence, incapable of
surrendering power or supporting a dispersal of powers, which the alternate
roots imply

Yrs,

Richard Henderson