[governance] Netizens and citizens / new TLDs?

[Milton Mueller]

Danny:

If you believe that the IGP statement is 

"advocating [the] existence [of .xxx] in the WSIS context" or " pumping
for an industry that makes money out of sex" 

then I can only guess that you haven't read it. Why don't you give it a
try? Then we can have a conversation about whether your agree with it or
not. http://dcc.syr.edu/signaturepost.asp By the way, we are approaching
100 signatories, about 5 times the number of active participants on this
list.

I would hope that the human rights component in WSIS civil society is
strong enough that one does not have to make the obvious point that when
one opposes censorship one doesn't necessarily approve of the expression
being censored. 

To say that ICANN shouldn't add any TLDs until it can add multilingual
ones is a mistake; it simply appeals to intercultural jealousies without
accomplishing anything. There is no zero sum game, lots of them can be
added now or later. There are no proposers of IDN domains at the moment,
but if and when there are, we (IGP) are working very hard with people
who are really involved in that to ensure that there is an open, fair,
objective process for adding them. 

I don't know what to make of your anti-commercialism. There is plenty
of room for both commercial and noncommercial TLDs, and we don't advance
the latter by blocking the former. I suspect that undeveloped countries
and regions such as Africa will not become serious players in DNS until
and unless they have a strong commercial Internet sector capable of
generating profits and wealth.

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