Re: [atlarge-discuss] Challenge from Ross Rader

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Bruce and all stakeholders or other interested parties and members,

Bruce Young wrote:

> Todd Glassey wrote:
>
> >Ross - this is more simple that that. Domain Owner/Operators are entitled
> to
> >a seat because they pay for the system.
>
> This smacks of the same logic the ALSC used in its Final Report to equate
> domain name holders as users.

  Stakeholders/users, whether they are Domain Name holders DO pay
for a seat as they pay taxes, for their internet connection, purchase
products or services of various sorts from online businesses, and
various combinations of these.  Hence to say that ONLY Domain name
holders are stakeholders/users is fallacious even using the argument
Todd is presenting.  This also happens to be part of Ross's
argument as well.  And regardless of who's argument it is or whom
is using it as an argument, it is still fallacious for the reasons I gave,
and others have added to or expanded upon...

>  It is a fallacious equation.  If we were
> talking about a purely commercial enterprise, it would probably apply.  But
> we're not.
>
> Whether the Internet industry likes it or not, companies big and small, and
> local, regional and national government agencies worldwide are increasingly
> moving their information, customer service and retailing processes to the
> Internet.  This wholesale movement of consumer services to online systems is
> quickly turning the Internet into a very essential public resource, wholly
> as critical to citizens' day-to-day lives as the telephone, and likely to be
> even more critical as time goes on.  And like any public resource, the
> Internet can no longer be operated solely for the profit of Internet
> companies' employees and stockholders, and must be managed in the best
> interest of the public it serves.

  Very true!

>
>
> Any organization taking on responsibility for Internet governance (used in
> Jefsey Morfin's context of the word!), be it ICANN or another, must weigh
> equally the need of the Internet industry to make a fair profit against the
> need to run a system that fairly and equitably serves the needs of all the
> Earth's citizens.  ICANN, by concentrating solely on the former at the
> expense of the latter, has failed in its duties to fairly manage the public
> resource placed in its charge.

  This seems to be the case an has seemed to be the case for some time...

  Well stated here though Bruce...

>
>
> Put in the simplest possible context: the needs of the many (millions and
> potential billions of Internet users) outweigh the needs of the few
> (Internet industry professionals & stockholders)!  (Kudos to Start Trek for
> popularizing such an often-used but fundamental truth!).
>
> Bruce Young
> Portland, Oregon USA
> bruce@barelyadequate.info
> http://www.barelyadequate.info
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Regards,

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