[governance] REAL net neutrality in now a hope!

Tue Dec 16 14:53:26 EST 2008

For an unbiased review of the "success" of .biz at the Atlantic Root Network see Ben Edelman's analysis at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/archived_content/people/edelman/dotbiz/

An example:  "As of November 15, 2000, only 5 registrants had registered any SLDs at all in ARNI's .BIZ TLD."


--- On Tue, 12/16/08, Karl E. Peters <kpeters at tldainc.org> wrote:

> From: Karl E. Peters <kpeters at tldainc.org>
> Subject: [governance] REAL net neutrality in now a hope!
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 2:14 PM
> <div id=yiv1801668660><html><span
> style="font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;"><font
> style="background-color:rgb(102, 255,
> 255);"><br>Quoted on and from the Governance
> list:<br>"Net neutrality
> laws are necessary to ensure that Internet service
> providers do not
> block content they disagree with or give financial breaks
> to big tech
> companies, squeezing out smaller competitors and stifling
> innovation".</font><br><br>   
> I must agree with the author of the above quote!!! <font
> style="font-style:italic;text-decoration:underline;">(And
> may it begin at home, with ICANN!!!)</font><br
> style="font-style:italic;text-decoration:underline;"><br>   
> ICANN is the world's largest and grandest offender of
> these very net neutrality ideals when it ignored (and
> continues to ignore) the original plan that the
> "alternate roots" would serve as a testbed for the
> introduction of new TLDs into the "legacy root",
> now administered by ICANN.  ICANN then goes with the
> big spenders it hopes to gain benefit from in awarding
> ".biz" away from its successful operator of that
> day, the Atlantic Root Network. (There is more than adequate
> proof of the existance of this .biz in carefully kept
> archives, if anyone cares to challenge!)
> <br>    <br>   
> While ICANN may claim it was unaware of our .biz, surely
> they heard of Leah Gallegos' testimony before the U.S.
> Congress on the matter! Surely they knew they were creating
> a monstrous internet naming collision by proposing a second
> registry for the same TLD! They simply did not care, because
> they were expecting big income from the new .biz just as
> they expect and recieve from the carefully protected Network
> Solutuions and a few other of their friends. Leah finally
> curtailed the orgininal .biz in the interest of internet
> stability, sacrificing her successful business for the
> smooth operation of the very internet ICANN is charged with
> protecting! <br><br>    Perhaps
> ICANN lacked the technical ability to search the internet to
> see what TLDs were already in operation when they went to
> create new ones? Was it technical ignorance or simple
> financial greed that led to that horrible precedent in
> internet piracy? It had to be one or the other! Which was
> it? <br><br>    Since the TLDA,
> in conjuction with the Public-Root, is set to publish its
> first TapRoot, a listing of all operational TLDs on any
> root, anywhere in the world on practically zero budget, I
> dare say it must have been pure greed alone. Had they put
> out the question for existing TLDs, a chorus of
> confirmations would have been returned. No nquestions would
> have remained. Deals could have been struck with existing
> TLD managers to include them in ICANN's root; but ICANN
> never even asked. <br><br>   
> ICANN wanted no proof for which to feel guilty. They just
> wanted another revenue stream from someone who would owe
> them a favor, and they got it. The Atlantic Root
> Nework's TLDs were perfectly operational on at least one
> root server system and often more than one (through
> something called cooperation) and had <font
> style="font-weight:bold;">many</font>
> happy SLD holders through a perfectly functional Registry
> system. The only difference: . . . we didn't owe them
> anything, and were proving that what ICANN does is very
> easily and cheaply duplicated. Such a model was dangerous to
> the big money schemes that US Government nods kept allowing
> ICANN to get away with, appearing to have some special
> ability the rest of the world lacked to run an
> internet.  <br><br>    Now
> ICANN is pulling away from the US Government auspices
> entirely and can be tried more easily for their offenses.
> Perhaps the splintering of today's ICANN will finally
> allow for true Net Neutrality after all these
> years!<br><br>    Internet
> governance will become a little more work and a little less
> rubber-stamping, but the world will benefit greatly. We, the
> TLDA stand ready to do our part to assist in the
> transition.<br><br>Sincerely
> yours,<br>Karl E. Peters, President<br>Top-Level
> Domain Association, Inc.<br>USA  (912) 638-1638
> <br><br>P.S. I will make the first draft of the
> TapRoot available on our webiste very soon and a copy may be
> had by anyone requesting it at no charge, even ICANN! Write
> me if you would like to see what is going on outside the
> gates.<br></span></html> 
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