Re: [ga] Re: How to Get Help When You Have a Problem with Your Registrar

[Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Danny Younger wrote:

> The RAA requires a bit more than that:

...

I don't disagree that ICANN's notion of enforcement is best described as 
lackadaisical and intermittent to a nearly vanishing degree.

But my deeper concern is that ICANN is imposing conditions that it has 
no legitimate authority to impose except insofar as ICANN happens to be 
a monopoly position.

Which, for example, of those RAA terms improves or protects the 
technical stability of the internet?  Which, if any, are, instead, 
impositions of a particular choice of social, economic, and business policy?

ICANN might have a snowball's chance to get by regulating things that 
directly and compellingly affect internet technical stability, but where 
is the source of authority for ICANN to act as a social and economic 
regulator?

If something is not illegal, either in a criminal or civil context, then 
where does ICANN get the right to prohibit it?

My .ewe registry, which is a combined registry+register, does none of 
the things you cited in the RAA.  Should that be a basis for denying me 
the chance to lose my shirt by operating my .ewe business?

		--karl--