[lac-discuss-en] Fwd: [governance] REAL net neutrality in now a hope!

[Carlton Samuels]

This is another view that we should at least be aware of.

Carlton

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From: Karl E. Peters <kpeters at tldainc.org>
Date: Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:14 PM
Subject: [governance] REAL net neutrality in now a hope!
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org



Quoted on and from the Governance list:
"Net neutrality laws are necessary to ensure that Internet service providers
do not block content they disagree with or give financial breaks to big tech
companies, squeezing out smaller competitors and stifling innovation".

    I must agree with the author of the above quote!!! (And may it begin at
home, with ICANN!!!)

    ICANN is the world's largest and grandest offender of these very net
neutrality ideals when it ignored (and continues to ignore) the original
plan that the "alternate roots" would serve as a testbed for the
introduction of new TLDs into the "legacy root", now administered by ICANN.
ICANN then goes with the big spenders it hopes to gain benefit from in
awarding ".biz" away from its successful operator of that day, the Atlantic
Root Network. (There is more than adequate proof of the existance of this
.biz in carefully kept archives, if anyone cares to challenge!)

    While ICANN may claim it was unaware of our .biz, surely they heard of
Leah Gallegos' testimony before the U.S. Congress on the matter! Surely they
knew they were creating a monstrous internet naming collision by proposing a
second registry for the same TLD! They simply did not care, because they
were expecting big income from the new .biz just as they expect and recieve
from the carefully protected Network Solutuions and a few other of their
friends. Leah finally curtailed the orgininal .biz in the interest of
internet stability, sacrificing her successful business for the smooth
operation of the very internet ICANN is charged with protecting!

    Perhaps ICANN lacked the technical ability to search the internet to see
what TLDs were already in operation when they went to create new ones? Was
it technical ignorance or simple financial greed that led to that horrible
precedent in internet piracy? It had to be one or the other! Which was it?

    Since the TLDA, in conjuction with the Public-Root, is set to publish
its first TapRoot, a listing of all operational TLDs on any root, anywhere
in the world on practically zero budget, I dare say it must have been pure
greed alone. Had they put out the question for existing TLDs, a chorus of
confirmations would have been returned. No nquestions would have remained.
Deals could have been struck with existing TLD managers to include them in
ICANN's root; but ICANN never even asked.

    ICANN wanted no proof for which to feel guilty. They just wanted another
revenue stream from someone who would owe them a favor, and they got it. The
Atlantic Root Nework's TLDs were perfectly operational on at least one root
server system and often more than one (through something called cooperation)
and had many happy SLD holders through a perfectly functional Registry
system. The only difference: . . . we didn't owe them anything, and were
proving that what ICANN does is very easily and cheaply duplicated. Such a
model was dangerous to the big money schemes that US Government nods kept
allowing ICANN to get away with, appearing to have some special ability the
rest of the world lacked to run an internet.

    Now ICANN is pulling away from the US Government auspices entirely and
can be tried more easily for their offenses. Perhaps the splintering of
today's ICANN will finally allow for true Net Neutrality after all these
years!

    Internet governance will become a little more work and a little less
rubber-stamping, but the world will benefit greatly. We, the TLDA stand
ready to do our part to assist in the transition.

Sincerely yours,
Karl E. Peters, President
Top-Level Domain Association, Inc.
USA  (912) 638-1638

P.S. I will make the first draft of the TapRoot available on our webiste
very soon and a copy may be had by anyone requesting it at no charge, even
ICANN! Write me if you would like to see what is going on outside the gates.

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