Re: [atlarge-discuss] HOWTO send a message to ICANN

["Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@ntlworld.com>]

Excellent and helpful suggestion which would be very beneficial for new
members and for some who are already members. A link on our homepage to
"Explaining the DNS" or something like that would be really useful.

A big aspect of our role lies in exactly this kind of communication to
'inform' ordinary users and 'involve' them.

Thanks!

Richard H

----- Original Message -----
From: <david@aminal.com>
To: <atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de>
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: [atlarge-discuss] HOWTO send a message to ICANN


> On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 05:32:02PM -0500, espresso@e-scape.net wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > 4. People who use those URLs put a strain on the normal DNS
> >    system and its infrastructure, which was designed to support
> >    only the "normal" domains under the U.S./ICANN's dominion.
> >    The root servers (which translate domain names humans read
> >    into server addresses computers can connect to) are already
> >    overburdened handling the "normal" addresses and using
> >    "unauthorized" ones makes them work even harder, so using
> >    URLs for the alternative namespace can be a means of protesting
> >    the "normal" policy of artificially limiting the supply of
> >    domain names so that commercial registrars can charge higher
> >    prices [see Economics 101 for the "law of supply and demand"]
> >    and artificially limiting the number of organizations "allowed"
> >    to give people domain names under ICANN's "authorized" TLDs so
> >    as to increase ICANN's power and income.
> >
>
> Point four is interesting, and I wonder where you got this impression.
>
> It is not correct.
>
> Correctly implemented, inclusive namespaces put no additional load on
> the ICANN sanctioned root servers. In fact, the system I implemented
> here at Speco puts no load at all on those root servers at all, because
> the function they perform is handled locally by our system.
>
> <snip>
>
>
> > The problem I see with this method of protest, Joe, is that we
> > Internet users want the Internet to be stable, reliable and
> > accessible to everyone. If we 1,000 took your advice and not
> > only used that URL ourselves but encouraged all our friends and
> > relations to do so, we'd be causing a "technical disaster" with
> > an effect opposite to what we want.
>
> No technical disaster, people who use these systems simply bypass
> ICANN controlled infrastructure.
>
>
> >
> > There is also no guarantee that the official response to the
> > disaster would be anything other than lumping us in with the vandals
> > and terrorists: that is, finding ways to arrest and prosecute us for
> > malicious attacks on the Internet. And somehow I doubt that this
> > kind of "voting" would count with the technical community as
> > anything but another problem.
>
> Again, I am very curious as to how you got the impression that not
> using the ICANN domain name system infrastructure could be considered
> vandalism or a malicious attack on the Internet.
>
>
> > I'd like to see this group start by articulating exactly
> > what is wrong with the U.S./ICANN model for administration and
> > governance of the Internet and lobbying against the "crony
> > capitalism" as well as for improvements in both the technical
> > underpinnings and the inclusion of Internet users in a more
> > transparent and democratic process. I think we would need to
> > do that in layman's language, so that all of our members and
> > all of the technically-unadept politicians could understand
> > what we're talking about.
> >
>
> The domain name system is not as mysterious or complex as you
> might think.
>
> I agree that it is important to make the concepts accessible to
> laypeople, and I'd like to help to do that.
>
> Please feel free to contact me (privately might be best for now),
> and I'll do my best to explain the hows and whys of the DNS.
>
> If I'm succesfull, perhaps we can distill the results into
> something that will be usefull for the whole group.
>
> Thank you,
>
> David Schutt
> Speco, Inc
>
> > Regards,
> >
> > Judyth
> >
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> > Montreal, QC           <espresso@e-scape.net>
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