Yeah, I too was surprised that Karl stopped right there ;)<br><br>And more: there's something I'm not seeing from nearly all the comments/reactions here. There are two parts in Lauren's main statement/title: the infrastructure and the institution managing it. I read "ICANN's Top-level Domain" (or ICANN's domain name system) as inseparable in that statement. And even if s/he refers to search engines today as one argument for contending that *that* DNS (and not necessarily *the* DNS) is irrelevant, I still don't think s/he said enough *in that post* for anyone to conclude that what is being proposed here is to take down the DNS and let the search engines do the job.<br>
<br>Now I had a different thought after I read it myself, which relates to the institution not the infrastructure (I didn't see hint of that in the IGP post referred to by Milton, either. And by that I'm not saying none of the parties here never raised these concerns before, but just that they haven't in their comments to this blog post, except maybe Parminder.) Are we witnessing the replacement of one monopolistic mindset by another one, the replacement of a multistate-driven (or intergovernmental) monopoly by a private monopoly, at the global level? (I guess both governments and ICANN may claim to be "nonprofit" so I'm skipping that qualifier.) Yes, with the private structure more people, private citizens get to talk, but who and what really get to influence the ultimate policy outcome? Whose interests are consistently attended to? Or do you folks mean to say that there is nothing monopolistic regarding how ICANN actually goes about managing the DNS?<br>
<br>I am wondering.<br><br>Best,<br>Mawaki<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Meryem Marzouki <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:meryem@marzouki.info">meryem@marzouki.info</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Le 5 nov. 10 à 09:37, Stephane Bortzmeyer a écrit :<div class="im"><br>
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The mention of search engines is especially stupid: domain names<br>
provide exactly what is missing with search engines, stability. Today,<br>
"afnic" in Google goes (depending on your previous searches) to<br>
<<a href="http://www.afnic.fr/" target="_blank">http://www.afnic.fr/</a>> Tomorrow, it may suddenly goes to<br>
<<a href="http://www.afnic.af.mil/" target="_blank">http://www.afnic.af.mil/</a>> or to <<a href="http://www.tsatexas.org/" target="_blank">http://www.tsatexas.org/</a>>.<br>
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Agree and let me add that, beyond the stability issue, relying on search engines only would lead to many fundamental rights and democracy concerns (I mean even more than with the current DNS system subject to ICANN diktat), especially given lack of transparency of commercial search engines criteria and market dominance by a single player.<br>
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I'm disappointed that Karl hasn't pointed to the source of all problems with current DNS scheme management: its unicity. In general, his booster shots on alternative DNS are most welcome -- by me at least;)))<br>
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Best,<br><font color="#888888">
Meryem</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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