Re: [ICANN-EU] IPv6, was: re-chartering this list: draft.

[Andy Mueller-Maguhn <andy@ccc.de>]

Christoph wrote:

> 'cybermobbing' is 
>badly overstated here. Quite gross, actually.

Form follows function; but the function of communication
is to enable exchange of views. I wish we could agree, that
any debate we have here must make sense itself and not
be a tool for "I am better than you am cause I know more"
games.

>The problems we face now with the DNS
>system are nearly 100% externally caused (mostly by a mix of bad
>court decisions and legal theories and bad administrative practice),
>and we can create new TLDs until we are blue in the face, these 
>problems won't go away.

Objection. I agree about the reasons for the current problems,
but not, that new TLDīs couldnīt solve any problems. I could
imagine that new TLDīs take place under there own rules,
policies and legal theories. So, next to the (not so new) idea
of a TLD ".TM" for the trademark-owners, i could imagine
".GPL" for everything under gnu public-license. We could even
expand these to cultural and religious spaces, like ".ISLAM"
(btw, they have no copyright & patent-laws ;), ".catholic"
for everything under Catholic policy and so on.

Planet earth is big and I donīt see any reason for putting 
american policies and/or centralised ICANN decisions on the
whole cultural and economic space internet.

So, for it might be quiete difficult, to break up the rules 
on the current TLD`s, it might be a good way to create some
new ones under those policies and so show up alternatives.

>Another example is Jeanette's ideas abou how standardization
>works. Lutz very early made the point that the authority of 
>organizations like ICANN derive from the technical quality 
>of their results. Bad standards are not accepted in the market.
>Again Jeanette disagreed, somehow, with some fluff remarks
>on the influence of techs, without that I really 
>understood her counterposition.

I thought you did agree, that the current TLD / namespace
handling courtdecisions vs. UDRP/WIPO stuff is bullshit,
but it is accepted in the market. So I have to disagree:
just because a standard is bad, it doesnīt mean it is not
accepted in the market.

best regards,

Andy M.-M.

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