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<div>Eric,</div>
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<div>I'm not trying to be obtuse here, but I'm not sure that I fully
understand your answer.</div>
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<div>So if your substitute question is "How does ICANN help the
average Internet user?" -- my first (but not the
only) response would be that it runs a hierarchical naming system that
permits users, if they wish, to obtain a name from a moderately
restricted set of categories, and the system includes registries that
permit these names to be dynamically resolved to IP addresses that are
necessary to ensure that traffic flows to where it should. It also
works to prevent the fraudulent use or hijacking of names at several
levels.</div>
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<div>I suspect that you will agree with the above description, and
that your concern is rather that it should do more to help individual
Internet users. What more, very specifically, should it
do?</div>
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<div>And in particular, what more should it do for the vast majority
of Internet users who don't have a domain name themselves but just use
the DNS to access Internet-based resources and communications?</div>
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<div>George</div>
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<div>At 2:46 PM -0700 7/7/09, Eric Dierker wrote:</div>
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<blockquote>No this is entirely a negative and wrong
question.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>The question that one asks of governance is not "how
does it hurt?".</blockquote>
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<blockquote>The question is and shall always be "how does it
help?"</blockquote>
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<blockquote>And the fact that most dotcommoners do not have a place to
call home on the net is proof of failure.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>"How do ICANN's actions (or inactions) disadvantage
or hurt the average Internet user, who may have, but probably doesn't
have, a domain name and/or a Web site?"<br>
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