[governance] Clinton Admits: "Free" Trade is Harmful to 3rd

[Lee W McKnight]

McTim,

While there is a logic for why things are the way they are, I cringe every time I hear the phrase 'natural' before monopoly.

Not to get into a long debate, but the historical major proponents of 'natural' monopolies, the telcos,  have been living in a more competitive world for some decades.

So let's not go there, better to just say certain IG allocation functions are best handled - by a CS organization ; )
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From: McTim [dogwallah at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 10:01 AM
To: Parminder
Cc: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Subject: Re: [governance] Clinton Admits: "Free" Trade is Harmful to 3rd

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
> McTim
>
> You seriously believe ICANN is a civil society organisation!?

of course I do, because it is.

>
> Apart from the many other absurdities implied, you mentioned in your email
> to Milton that allocation of domain name, IP addresses etc is  a 'natural
> monopoly' function. Dont you see that civil society is definitionally a
> social sub-system denoting pluralism, non-rivalrous-ness, non-monopoly
> etc.... How could an organisation do a 'natural monopoly' function and be
> civil society?

the two are not at all mutually exclusive.

Do you deny that the root of Internet numbering resources are a
natural monopoly?  How about names?  If it wasn't then I could have
itforchange.net, and there would be chaos in terms of who is who.

--
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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