[governance] Parminder's exchange with Bertrand

[Bertrand de La Chapelle]

Hi Milton,

What is your view on the application of the notion of CPR to the domain name
space. One thing to consider in particular is that - even if there is the
possibility of 63 character strings in new gTLDs - the real pool of
interesting strings is much more limited : Top Level domains are more
desirable if they are short strings with high semantic meaning. In each
language, they are much less numerous than the number of letter combinations
and therefore collectively represent a scarce resource. Basically, .golf is
probably more valuable than .djufoelksocnqipplkidpfnabchwyuding.

In that context, what would be the equivalent of overexploitation of the
resource pool ? a too rapid allocation of the most precious names ?

B.


On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:

> Thanks, Massit-Follea for a more nuanced approach to Ostrom.
>
> Ostrom does not romanticize "the commons" (though many of her acolytes do);
> she does not categorize ALL resources as common pool resources but restricts
> it to those that involve exclusive appropriation but difficulty of
> exclusion; she does not deny the existence of the tragedy of the commons but
> asserts that it can be overcome not only through private property (to which
> she is not hostile) but also by collective governance arrangements. Ostrom
> is very pragmatic and empirical in her approach to governance arrangements.
> Actually as a positive theorist (as opposed to a normative one) her
> approaches and ideas could just as well be used by any side in the internet
> governance debates.
>
> In a paper I present in late March at the European Communications Policy
> Research Conference I do an institutional analysis of ip addressing which
> relies on some of her concepts.
>
> --MM
> ________________________________________
> From: massit follea [f.massit at orange.fr]
> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 9:26 AM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Bertrand de La Chapelle
> Subject: Re: [governance] Parminder's exchange with Bertrand
>
> Dear all list-members,
>
> deepening Bertrand's reference  : Elinor Ostrom is speaking about "stable
> LOCAL common property resource management" as
> 1. Clearly defined boundaries (effective exclusion of external unentitled
> parties);
> 2.     Rules regarding the appropriation and provision of common resources
> adapted to local conditions;
> 3.     Collective-choice arrangements allowing most resource appropriators
> to participate in the decision-making process;
> 4.     Effective monitoring by monitors who are part of or accountable to
> the appropriators;
> 5.     A scale of graduated sanctions for resource appropriators who
> violate community rules;
> 6.     Mechanisms of conflict resolution cheap and of easy access;
> 7.     Self-determination of the community recognized by higher-level
> authorities;
> 8.     In the case of larger common-pool resources: organization in the
> form of multiple layers of nested enterprises, with small local CPRs at the
> base level. …
>
> Elinor Ostrom: « Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for
> Collective Action ». Cambridge University Press. 1990. p.90,  and «
> Understanding Institutional Diversity ». Princeton, Princeton University
> Press. 2005. p.259
>
> F Massit-Folléa
>
>
>
>


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Information Society
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