[governance] [govenance] The domain name racket goes on

[parminder]

On Friday 26 September 2014 04:29 PM, parminder wrote:
>
> On Monday 22 September 2014 09:39 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
>>
>> Parminder:
>>
>> How would you know? You’ve never been to any of these meetings and 
>> don’t track the processes.
>>
>
> Neither have I been to any ITU meeting. So since you are laying down 
> the rules regarding who can speak about IG processes and who cannot, 
> you may want to be more precise and tell me how many meetings of any 
> IG forum one must attend before one can comment on it.
>
> As for following these meetings, the problem is not so much about 
> other people not following what is happening at ICANN (which 
> deliberately makes things difficult to follow which is one of their 
> main strategies of protecting and perpetuating themselves) , but those 
> who go to ICANN not following what is happening in the real world. 
> This is why they can cause such serious blunders as evident in the new 
> gTLD implementation where new forms of private regulatory mechanisms 
> are being set up in very partisan ways - like the one which will 
> regulate the use of .health gtld, and generic words belonging to the 
> whole English speaking community are allowed to be privatized in their 
> domain name version like .book and .beauty....

To compare the ICANN's multistakeholder model to government regulation, 
no trademark law will ever allow these words as trademarks, because of 
their generic nature.... So one can see who protects public interest 
better. ICANN doesn't care about general public rights to generic words 
of the language and allows their proprietization while typical trademark 
(written and administered by those bad governments) are designed not to 
allow such a thing to happen.

When, for instance, Amazon gets the ownership of .book (as their 
exclusive gtld not available to others) they can legitimately parade and 
publicize the term '.book' as their own as they please, and with 
extended use, not only will that make an extremely unfair association 
between the word 'book' and amazon's business in books in people's mind, 
in time, they may also claim trademark rights over the word, with some 
legitimate grounds behind them.... Therefore, not only ICANN's legal 
regime is much worse that governmental regimes, it can and will be used 
to upstage the latter's good points..

parminder

> To think that most people of the world want such things is 
> preposterous, but those involved with ICANN can make themselves 
> believe that this is indeed so. Get out of your insularity please. 
> There is a real world out there. And you are hurting its interests.
>
>
> parminder
>>
>> What has become of ICANN is best represented in the email of 
>> resignation 
>> (http://mailman.apnic.net/mailing-lists/sig-policy/archive/2014/09/msg00049.html 
>> ) from the chair of one of  APNIC's policy groups which is linked 
>> below. What has been said of APNIC is just many more times truer of 
>> ICANN.... It is just that ICANN supported and fed groups are simply 
>> not willing enough to speak about the emperor's clothes. But the 
>> charade cannot go on forever, and once it is behind us many involved 
>> people will look really bad.
>>
>>
>

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