Re: [ga] ICM cross-registry WHOIS database

[JFC Morfin <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 18:18 06/03/2007, Danny Younger said:
> Eric,
> My suspicion is that members of the IPC had a private
> deal-making session with the ICM Registry.  This is
> most likely why we are now seeing clauses pertaining
> to both a searchable WHOIS system and to DMCA-style
> take-down provisions.
>
> Rather than debating these issues in a forthright
> manner with their peers in the GNSO stakeholder
> communities, I suspect that IPC members have chosen a
> path to back-door these initiatives in the hope of
> establishing a precedent that can be carried forward.
>
> It's sad that in the desperate quest to obtain a TLD,
> Stuart Lawley's ICM Registry has found it necessary to
> cave in to the forces of trademark-uber-alles.

Your guess seems likely. De(facto)centralisation, limited TLD number, 
RSSC, IPv6 design, etc. are the same problem: managing the globality 
as if it was a private dominion for a few interests. There is no plot 
here. There will be many other occurrences. This is just the natural 
ecology of the concentration system they designed.
jfc