Re: [ga] Re: On new TLDs

[Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, kidsearch wrote:

> Danny, you bring up this point; Does ICANN currently have in place a plan to
> deal with registry business/financial failure?
..
> I'm asking for an explanation here. Why is this any different?

It isn't any different.

I've been asking for years that people consider the question of what we 
want out of these internet governance bodies.

A. Do we want to create an oversight body to ensure technical stability?

B. Do we want to create a consumer protection agency?

C. Do we want to create an insurance body to protect the consumer against 
business failures?

D. Do we want to create a market-maker to select, shape, and and form 
domain name vendors, products, prices and terms?  (I.e. do we want to 
adopt J.D. Rockefeller's approach of "rationalizing" the marketplace by 
supressing the "irrationality" of open competition?)

Most of us probably would say we want "A" and maybe "B".

But in reality what we have from ICANN is "D" with a hint of "C".

		--karl--