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

[parminder]

On Friday 26 September 2014 05:14 PM, McTim wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 6:16 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>> SNIP
>
> Perhaps ParminderCAN tell us which words should be allowed instead of
> which strings he objects to, and the rules under which they are
> allowed, and who should be eligible to be the Registry Operator for
> those strings.
>
> We could call it the Parminder Applicant Guidebook or PAGB for short.

Jokes apart, it is not that difficult to get the basic principles right. 
There exists a long tradition of evolving 'public interest' principles 
which is what 'political processes' are about, ideas that ICANN ists 
seem to simply abhor. They think that the world runs by technical 
systems and business contracts alone. It is not difficult to start 
building from the current body of public interest principles that 
pertain to allocation of any privileged use of any word, Louis having 
pointed to the internal law on trade marks as one such reference.

The purpose of a specific governance system like ICANN is to fine tune 
larger public interest principles to a specific governance context, like 
allocation of gLTDs in this case.

I could easily think of two principles that looks quite obvious with 
respect to the context we are discussing..

1. Dont allocate any generic names for closed private use.... It is ok 
to have have open gTLDs using generic names. (Open gTLDs allow any 
applicant to get a sub doman on a first come first served basis. A 
closed gTLD like the proposed .book and .beauty gTLDs allows the owner 
to have only its own products use the domain names and disallow the 
general public.)

2. Generic names that clearly represent regulated sectors (in all 
countries) like health and education be allocated to an/ the legitimate 
global governance agency which can develop basic rules about how sub 
domains may be allocated

Not rocket science, is it.

But ICANN has a way of going into thousand circuitous process to reach a 
pre ordained position - which is to favour the domain industry, which 
btw have revolving doors with the domain governance system, and also 
fill its own coffers, a part of which money can then again be used to 
develop extensive obfuscating processes to give the pretence of 
participation but the final result always serving vested and status quo 
interests.

Just to give one example of how jocular things are at ICANN... The 
independent expert felt that gTLDs like .book are not fine in his 
consideration, but that he is unable to do anything about it bec he can 
only object on community objection considerations but he is unable to 
see what would be the community that have special interest in the name 
'book' - the world's English speaking community ?? - but that simple 
idea did not occur to  him.

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.
>
> Once again, your cluelessness shines thru.
>
> The RIRs are NOT supported and fed by ICANN, in fact, the reverse is
> true.  I too was a RIR Policy Working Group Chair and I realised that
> during slow times (few or no policy proposals on the table) that
> holding meetings was not a futile exercise, as having regular,
> coordinated processes are essential to PDPs even when there are no
> current policy proposals to discuss.
>
> ICANN ALWAYS has policy proposals to discuss, in fact there are too
> many to keep track of at the moment.
>
> If you were really concerned about affecting change in this area,
> ICANN folks are just now putting together a timetable for the next
> round.  Now is not too early to get involved.
>
>


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