Re: [ga] More on Sitefinder suspension

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard and all former DNSO GA members or other interested Stakeholders/users,

  The only effective way of addressing this still ongoing rift/problem
is to avoid doing business with Affilias, which our [INEGroup]
members have been doing and systematically promoting gradually
for some time.

 What Verisign is now doing is a bit of a different approach and matter
however.  They signed a very flawed agreement entering into a
contractual arrangement with ICANN that the knew was full of holes,
and are now exploiting one of those holes for whatever purposes.
Yet the ICANN'ites seem of a certain "Strain" have still a strong
dislike for Verisign stemming from past transgressions or perceived
transgressions, and hence the furor over Sitefinder and uses of
Wild cards in DNS records/data.

  ICANN to a very great degree is the creator of these messes
in it's short sightedness in the specifics of it's Registry and Registrar
contracts and now the chicken is coming home to roost.

Richard Henderson wrote:

> 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

Regards,

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Jeffrey A. Williams
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