Re: [icann-europe] Recommended Reading: Brad Templeton on ICANN and the DNS

[Volker Leib <leib@mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de>]

At 10:36 12.07.01 +0200, you wrote:
>For those of you wo don't read ICANNwatch: Brad Templeton has posted 
>an interesting piece on the DNS, its problems, and a possible fix at 
><http://www.templetons.com/brad/dns/fix.html>.
>
>It's certainly worth reading.

Yes, it is. But the piece is certainly mor of a vision as Michael on ICANNWatch
said.
"NOVAM" would be nearer to market coordination than ICANN with regard to the
DNS root. However, it would risk to become a second ICANN when it would have to
select the members of the committee. Why 30 members? From which countries? Who
(s)elects and how? etc. pp. In short: How do you build something that is more
legitimate than ICANN?

It must be something in-between state regulation, self regulation or pure
market coordination (i.e. mimimal institutions: contract law and property
rights). Perhaps the only fix for expansion of TLD-space is a root market.
Unfortunately, we can't build it from scratch. Although market entry would be
no problem, there would be a need for collision avoidance, and we would have to
cope with the network effects of .com (and probably, sooner or later, .net if
Microsoft will bid for it) - this means regulation. But how? And who? It's a
never-ending story.

Volker