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

[Wolfgang Kleinwächter <wolfgang.medienstadt@okay.net>]

I agree with Volker, that
a. any alternative (non-governmental) organisational structure will be
confronted with the same (social, political, legal, economic, cultural)
problems ICANN is struggling with and
b. it is a never ending story.

I would not recommend a permanent change of horses. To work with the horse
and to train it further that it walks (or runs) better is probably painful
and needs time but produces a chance to move forward and not sidewards.

wolfgang


----- Original Message -----
From: "Volker Leib" <leib@mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de>
To: <icann-europe@lists.fitug.de>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: [icann-europe] Recommended Reading: Brad Templeton on ICANN and
the DNS


> 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
>
>


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