<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I'm doing this on an ipad so please excuse it being terse...</div><div><br></div><div>I am not suggesting that we avoid notions such as control or alienabiliy or the right to exclude others.. Rather I am simply suggesting that we stay away from culturally loaded words such as"property". I would prefer that we use the concept of the rights and duties that arise rather than bundling all that under the ambiguous word "property".</div><div><br></div><div> --karl--</div><div><br>On Apr 1, 2014, at 12:46 PM, Mawaki Chango <<a href="mailto:kichango@gmail.com">kichango@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Hi Jeanette, Karl:<div><br></div><div>So you've made the case for avoiding the concept of "property," indeed for its inadequacy, wrt the DNS. What about the other side of the coin? Can the DNS be considered a public good? That is, the DNS as lnternet logical infrastructure --not his or that gTLD or this or that domain name.</div>
<div>Thanks,</div><div> <br><div class="gmail_extra">Mawaki<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><div>
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<br></div></span></span></span></div></div></span></span></span></div></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Jeanette Hofmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeanette@wzb.eu" target="_blank">jeanette@wzb.eu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Karl,<br>
<br>
+1<br>
<br>
The term property suggests a totality and uniformity of ownership that in practice often turns out to be wrong. Ownership is always subject to conditions and those may vary across and time and political/juridical cultures. This also means that exclusive rights and obligations are not fixed forever but are negotiable.<br>
<br>
jeanette<br>
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Am 29.03.14 02:26, schrieb Karl Auerbach:<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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On 03/28/2014 06:17 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
1. Is the DNS property or public good?<br>
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<br>
The word "property" is very heavily overloaded by cultural and legal<br>
context.<br>
<br>
I find it much better to avoid that word altogether and rather to<br>
consider the collection of rights and obligations that person X has to<br>
thing Y.<br>
<br>
For example, with regard to domain names X could be the registrant and<br>
X's rights include the right to delegate name servers, to sub-delegate,<br>
etc. While the obligations might include paying fees, providing contact<br>
information, etc etc.<br>
<br>
Same for registrars - they have certain rights and obligations with<br>
regard to that same domain name (from the prior paragraph above) such<br>
acting as the intermediary to a registry, etc etc.<br>
<br>
Some people may consider those contractual things. But to me that is<br>
merely a difference in words without real difference in substance.<br>
<br>
I suggest, therefore, that in discussing these sorts of things that we<br>
can avoid a lot of miscommmunication by avoiding the difficult word<br>
"property".<br>
<br>
--karl--<br>
<br>
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