[governance] World Meat-Space Leaders Only Measure With .COM Percentage ?

[Jim Fleming]

Given that few world meat-space leaders have the time, energy or ability
to really understand Internet Governance, they naturally will attempt to
find
some metrics that they can map to their meat-space.

Their .COM Percentage appears to be their main measuring stick.

One major meat-space leader in the UN process recently announced that
they want their fair-share of the .COM names. [It appears they really mean
they
want their fair-share of the .COM fees, they could not care less about the
names.]

Does that imply that as names expire, they are shipped to third-world
countries for first-dibs ?

Will U.S. Registrars be removed from the bidding process to allow new
Registrars from
third-world countries to buy first ?

Will the UN be dividing up these names ?
A.COM
B.COM
C.COM
...
Z.COM

Using the 5-bit Symbol set, will 6-letter .COM names yield unique 30-bit
address block
prefixes that can be overlayed on the new address space managed by the UN,
giving those
.COM owners a FREE address allocation and ASN ? Will 6-letter .COM names
become
regulated and divided evenly between nations based on population ?

Is .COM (run by the U.S. Government) now being viewed as the
level-playing-field of
fairness that the world has selected to either show the fairness or expose
the lies ?
In other words, are world leaders from meat-space smart enough to stop the
moving of
the goal-posts and to call the bluff of the U.S. Government by narrowing all
of the discussions
to .COM and simple metrics that flow from .COM ? Will the U.S. Government's
reaction be
that there are many TLDs equal to .COM ? with the response being, show us
the numbers.
The numbers do not lie.

Would the big lie about the limits of the root-zone suddenly be reversed and
thousands
of TLDs be allowed to shift the focus off of .COM ? or will world meat-space
leaders say,
"Nope, not interested, game over, level the .COM field first."

"level the .COM field" ??? Ah, of course, distribute the $6 per year six
ways to all of the
six nations that want their share, or increase that to cover all of the UN
nations connected to
the Internet. At $1 per year per nation, that could raise the price of a
.COM name to over
$1,000 per year. Well-funded .COM owners do not seem to care. Paying a
country a dollar
per year to activate their .COM name in their DNS does not seem like a high
price.

Not only do meat-space countries want their fair-share of .COM, various
large ISPs and
special-interest-group populations would also like their "fair-share". That
could add another
$1,000 per year to .COM owners, to pay $1 each to all of the major ISPs,
large companies
with intranets, and even religious groups that are building their own
networks. With 40+ million
.COM owners each sending $1 per year to your small island nation, that could
make you
a major supporter of the UN and the various "processes" that are emerging in
meat-space.

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