RE: [ga] price policy

["Gene Marsh" <marshm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Karl,

Yes, but - as you and I both know from first-hand experience - these roles
are not only what ICANN has done, but with the tacit blessing (or turned
backs) of both DoC and many "constituant" factions - factions whose creation
and design was encouraged and stimulated by ICANN to assure their dominance
of them.

And, due to the money driving the forces behind the scenes, no one in
Washington has been willing to ask the pertinent questions.

Gene...

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Karl Auerbach
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 9:23 PM
To: Veni Markovski
Cc: Tim Ruiz; Prophet Partners Inc.; ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ga] price policy

Veni Markovski wrote:

> I'd say that it's not the same if someone buys 1 million domain names 
> at $ 1 each, or at $ 6 each. But in anycase - the bigger point is if 
> ICANN should regulate or not. I asked Karl similar question, but 
> haven't heard from him.

Simple answer - and the same one that I've been saying since 1997 --- It is
*not* ICANN's role to regulate any aspect of business, economic, social or
legal policy except insofar as there is a direct, clear, and compelling
technical necessity.

In other words:

   - Trademark protection is not part of ICANN's job.

   - Regulation of unsolicited commercial email is not part of ICANN's job

   - Evaluation of the business models of domain name registries and
registrars (except perhaps for the legacy .com/.net/.edu/.org/) is not
ICANN's job.

   - Publication of Whois for the purposes of making the life of
intellectual property attorneys easier is not ICANN's job.

On the other hand ICANN's job is to guarantee to the community of internet
users that the upper tier of DNS transform DNS queries into DNS responses
with dispatch, with no prejudice for or against anyone, without data mining,
and in accord with widely accepted written internet technical standards.

And that is a job that ICANN is not doing.  That is why ICANN is like an
e-Fema and DNS is like New Orleans in the balmy summer days of 2005 before
Katrina came over the horizon.

		--karl--

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