[governance] How do ICANN's actions hurt the average Internet

[George Sadowsky]

Eric,

I'm not trying to be obtuse here, but I'm not sure that I fully 
understand your answer.

So if your substitute question is "How does ICANN help the average 
Internet user?"  --  my first (but not the only) response would be 
that it runs a hierarchical naming system that permits users, if they 
wish, to obtain a name from a moderately restricted set of 
categories, and the system includes registries that permit these 
names to be dynamically resolved to IP addresses that are necessary 
to ensure that traffic flows to where it should. It also works to 
prevent the fraudulent use or hijacking of names at several levels.

I suspect that you will agree with the above description, and that 
your concern is rather that it should do more to help individual 
Internet users.  What more, very specifically, should it do?

And in particular, what more should it do for the vast majority of 
Internet users who don't have a domain name themselves but just use 
the DNS to access Internet-based resources and communications?

George

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At 2:46 PM -0700 7/7/09, Eric Dierker wrote:
>No this is entirely a negative and wrong question.
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>The question that one asks of governance is not "how does it hurt?".
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>The question is and shall always be "how does it help?"
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>And the fact that most dotcommoners do not have a place to call home 
>on the net is proof of failure.
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>"How do ICANN's actions (or inactions) disadvantage or hurt the 
>average Internet user, who may have, but probably doesn't have, a 
>domain name and/or a Web site?"
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