Re: [registrars] Start lobbying your Governments!! - WSIS...

["Siegfried Langenbach" <svl@xxxxxxx>]

Hallo Eric,

I agree on most of your statements.

siegfried

On 24 Nov 2003 at 11:37, Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine wrote:

To:             	Paul M Kane <Paul.Kane@xxxxxxxxxx>
Copies to:      	registrars@xxxxxxxx, brunner@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:        	Re: [registrars] Start lobbying your Governments!! - WSIS... 
Date sent:      	Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:37:26 -0500
From:           	Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> Paul,
> 
> I know this is supposed to be a slam-dunk, no thinking necessary, but I do
> not understand something.
> 
> Our fundamental purpose in having a "master" is to make rational business
> decisions possible. Whether the "master" is Verisign, ICANN, or national
> governments, or a treaty body, is pretty much a "don't care" if rational
> business decisions are impossible.
> 
> I was profoundly surprised by the outcome of the WLS issue. 
> 
> I was profoundly surprised by the outcome of the .org issue. Not so much
> by the ISOC award as by the amazing decision that NeuStar's technical
> qualifications were better than ISC's or SWITCH's (or anyone else except
> ISOC's operational partner).
> 
> I appreciate that my having spent two weeks inside CNNIC gives me a very
> different view of China -- I don't think the Chinese regulatory regime is
> any harder to do good business under than "no porn or spam" (local rules)
> or "no trademark infringement" or any other equivalent mature, consistent,
> and above all predictable regulatory regime.
> 
> I support self organized regulation, that's why I work with my competitors
> and suppliers and customers, but I don't equate this to ICANN. I cannot
> think of a national government with a serious body of policy and funding
> in the Internet that is less mature, less consistent and above all less
> predictable than ICANN. Given a choice between policy contested in Beijing,
> or Paris, or even Washington, and the fake contests in Marina del Rey, I'll
> take the better alternative.
> 
> So why is ICANN the better alternative? I don't think "deregulation" is an
> answer, as it just doesn't matter who makes the rules.
> 
> What matters is if the rules make business predictable and possible,
> or unpredictable and impossible.
> 
> Eric