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Verisign seeking patent over a 'governance process' should not be
too surprising, given that there has been a substantial creep from
'public' governance methods to 'private' (or contract</font><font
face="Verdana"> based</font><font face="Verdana">) governance
methods. And many in the civil society here have enthusiastically
supported this shift; so why lament now. ICANN proudly claims that
it is not a regulator, it merely provides a platform for
stakeholders (read, private interests) to negotiate, and the
outcomes of these negotiations are operationalised by ICANN. An
entirely innocent activity!<br>
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Once you admit the basic proposition that governance, like the
market, is founded on private parties negotiating on the basis of
their self-interests, and not based on 'public' interest, the
construction of which is a larger political process, you have
basically given it all away. Why would not then one seek
maximisation of private interest by patenting a governance process
embodied in a software for securing the DNS system? Well, we can
now negotiate with them and they may just agree to a system of
only taking 'reasonable' royalty on their patent!<br>
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To anyone trained in democratic thought, it is so unthinkably
abhorrent that someone can even try to patent a governance
process. But this is a post democratic period of
multistakeholderism, where governance is through negotiation of
private interests of different parties that can make to the table.
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BTW, on another count, the fact that US law allows software
patents while most other jurisdictions (like India) do not allow
software patents makes for a good case that the US law is not the
best one (it is perhaps the worst one) for oversight of the bodies
dealing with Internet's technical governance. Yes, this argument
is directly addressed to those who have claimed the superiority,
or even the appropriateness, of oversight of US law/courts/
executive over the ICANN against other possible jurisdictions.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Monday 08 October 2012 02:32 PM,
Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:<br>
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<div>I forgot to say that it reminds me of what the Director
General of WIPO had mentioned in relation to patenting the
internet which was reported exactly this time last year, see: <a
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:21 PM,
Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div>See the Application via <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://domainnamewire.com/wp-content/verisign-dnssec.pdf"
target="_blank">http://domainnamewire.com/wp-content/verisign-dnssec.pdf</a></div>
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