[governance] Cities and Internet Governance

[David Goldstein]

Oh Karl, come on... your comment "but the combination of a vastly weakened and less-respected USA, thanks to Obama and friends" is just childish and as uninformed as much of the rest of the discussion on this issue. If you look around the world, the position of the USA has been markedly ENHANCED since the election of Obama.

As for trademark issues, sure, these have to be considered. But I'd have sympathy for the issues raised by trademark holders if they were registering trademarks in the 200+ ccTLDs around the world. In reality, until there is a critical mass of registrations or an abuse of a trademark, in many new gTLDs trademark holders will ignore registering or protecting their domain names for trademarks.

As for the issue of new helicopters - what relevance does this have to the debate. If they are required, the government should buy them. It's not an internet governance issue.

David




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From: Karl E. Peters <kpeters at tldainc.org>
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 24 February, 2009 3:01:13 PM
Subject: RE: [governance] Cities and Internet Governance

 
 
> With the ICANN having deemed cities eligible to develop TLDs, and with
> cities such as Barcelona, Berlin, New York, and Paris lining up for TLDs,
> it's time to consider the place and impact city-TLDs will have on Internet
> governance.
 
 
Regarding the place and impact city-TLDs will have on Internet governance:
    As I alluded to in my earlier post on this subject, there is a potential for yet another version of the SLD inspired UDRP process to determine "rightful" registrants of the TLDs. That will be altogether messy enough on its own, but there is another component that stands to be a bit messy that probably only I would bring up here at this time. That is the FACT that many TLDs are already running on a multitude of roots, some better than others, and plan to challenge the DOC/NTIA and ICANN (if it still holds any authority after it walks out from under the long protective wings of US Government mandate by not renewing the JTA this summer) for any taking of an operational TLD without some reasonable sharing or purchase agreement for the original operator of the TLD in another root. The theft of .biz and ultimate sale of it to NeuStar was a literal crime on the part of ICANN and will not be allowed without a fight this time around. With ICANN giving up its
 assured position in the Internet to try and forge one of its own as a fully private entity in a time of great discontent with ICANN and an already strong interest by many parties to form their own roots, the internet world is changing and will reach outside the virtual world and into the courts in the event of the same problems this time. As investment people are prone to say, "past performance does not assure like future performance".
    Contrary to popular belief, this issue may bring about more internet governance issues, at least for a time, than net neutrality and a number of other issues combined; especially if it is accented by the revocation of authority from ICANN when it leaves its benefactor's warm and cozy wing.
    I am well aware that there are few here who feel anything could ever happen to challenge the position of ICANN in the operation of a world internet; but the combination of a vastly weakened and less-respected USA, thanks to Obama and friends, and an ICANN trying to make it on its own, even when under so much fire and in a time of internet division, not unity, there may well be many surprises for many of you coming up pretty soon.
-Karl E. Peters, President
Top Level Domain Association, Inc.


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