[governance] Re: Alternative DNS systems and net neutrality

[Norbert Bollow]

Veni Markovski <veni at veni.com> wrote:
> At 12:25 11/16/2007  -0800, you wrote:
> >But how exactly do you determine that "the current model is working"?  For
> >whom is it working, and for whom is it not working?
> 
> It is working for anyone who wants to get online, and go to any web 
> site.

It is working for everyone who considers it acceptable when
powerful corporations prevent the creation of alternatives
to the currently-dominating mode of internet use where
cultural expression has become strongly influenced by the
interests of greedy profit-oriented corporations.

However, there currently seems to be no way in which a group
of people who want to try implementing an economic model for
a TLD which differs significantly from "pay a recurring fee
for the privilege of having a second-level domain name" could
get a TLD delegated to them.  For example, I think that it
would be interesting and potentially worthwhile to experiment
with some kind of community processes for operating second-
level domain names identified by generic terms, such as e.g.
<programming.tld>.

Greetings,
Norbert.


-- 
Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>                      http://Norbert.ch
President of the Swiss Internet User Group SIUG    http://SIUG.ch
Working on establishing a non-corrupt and
truly /open/ international standards organization  http://OpenISO.org

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