[governance] RE: GeoTLD

[Avri Doria]

Wow.  I am impressed with the propaganda.

Really i am - i think displays of propaganda are an art form - things  
that should be viewed and studied per se.

ICANN -> Stalinist Soviet Union
Multiple Roots -> with the vaccination against smallpox or the  
creation of Internet.

With the authority  St Aquinas brought in as a bolstering argument.

Well done!


Note: even the use of 'consistent root' as opposed to' single root' is  
propaganda speech.  They really are logically the same thing.  Just  
one is a way of saying we need a mechanism other then ICANN to keep  
the root consistent.  And in this analysis the  free market is named  
as the better mechanism.  I am not sure we all agree that the so  
called 'free market' is the best way to resolve issues of resource  
allocation.

a.

On 27 Dec 2007, at 02:19, Karl Auerbach wrote:
>
...

> In most of the world a new brand of laundry detergent does not apply  
> to the Worldwide Ministry of Soap for approval.  That kind of idea  
> was tried in numerous 5-year plans in the old USSR and nobody has  
> ever said that that was a system that was responsive to user needs.
>
> Rather, a new brand of laundry detergent must fight to build its  
> brand (name recognition) and obtain space on the shelves of stores.
>
> There is no reason why TLD creation must occur using the model of a  
> top-down planned economy (the ICANN method) rather than a  
> competitive economy in which user choice ultimately determines  
> success and failure.
>
>


On 27 Dec 2007, at 04:58, Karl Auerbach wrote:

>
> The fact that relatively few competing root systems exist today is  
> not, at least not to me, a very strong argument, much less a  
> persuasive or compelling argument.
>
> Once upon a time - back in the 1970's - the telcos incessantly  
> whined that the only way to do data networking was through the use  
> of switched circuits, and their "big new thing", ISDN, and that  
> those of us at UCLA, Lincoln Labs, Rand, and SDC ought to forget  
> this new "alternative view of reality" called packet switching.
>
> The number of people who used that "alternative view" easily could,  
> and sometimes did, fit into a single university classroom.
>
> Yet in the fullness of time that "alternative view of reality"  
> became today's internet.

>
>
> At one time it seemed like an insane idea to intentionally infect  
> people with a mild disease (cowpox) as a means to prevent a much  
> worse disease (smallpox).  Yet today, largely based on what was once  
> considered an insane idea, the world is nearly (and perhaps really)  
> relieved of what was once a terrible thing.
>
..

>
>
> The argument of the IETF and IAB is almost entirely one based solely  
> on their position as authority rather than sound, testable technical  
> arguments.  This brings to mind the wisdom of Thomas Aquinas (1225– 
> 1274): Locus ab auctoritate .. est infirmissimus.  (The argument  
> from authority is the weakest form of argument.)
>
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