[At-Large] Opera now lets you ditch boring web links and use emojis instead

Alejandro Pisanty apisanty at gmail.com
Mon Feb 21 01:29:33 UTC 2022


Karl,

TL;DR, QED for no emojis in DNS. Thanks.

Alejandro Pisanty

On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 3:52 PM Karl Auerbach via At-Large <
at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org> wrote:

> On 2/20/22 8:52 AM, sivasubramanian muthusamy via At-Large wrote:
>
> > What does ICANN think about private and often proprietary
> > 'innovations' that aspire to "cause a major shift in the way the
> > Internet [DNS] works" ?
> >
> Remember, the Internet came from a rejection of the status-quo, the
> world of circuit switching and central control.
>
> The question you asked is not far distant from a question whether we
> ought to nail down the Internet in the same way the telcos of the first
> three quarters of the 20th century ossified the telephone networks.
>
> Ma Bell and other telco's imposed extreme, and often arbitrary, limits
> on innovation at the edges. Take a look at the 1956 US case regarding
> the Hush-a-Phone. (In that case AT&T tried to block the attachment of
> what was essentially a plastic hand that would be attached by the user
> to the mouthpiece of a telephone. At&T made wild claims that that would
> cause the telephone network to collapse and repairmen would blown off
> the top of telephone poles.)  Then look at the Carterphone and MCI cases.
>
> One of the hallmarks of the Internet is permissionless innovation at the
> edges. Clearly there are balances to be made, but we risk a balance that
> pushes too much control to the center.
>
> Some decades ago I distilled this balance into a short formulation:
>
> First Law of the Internet
>
> + Every person shall be free to use the Internet in any way
>    that is privately beneficial without being publicly
>    detrimental.
>
>     - The burden of demonstrating public detriment shall
>       be on those who wish to prevent the private use.
>
>         - Such a demonstration shall require clear and
>           convincing evidence of public detriment.
>
>     - The public detriment must be of such degree and extent
>       as to justify the suppression of the private activity.
>
> https://www.cavebear.com/old_cbblog/000059.html
>
>          --karl--
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> At-Large mailing list
> At-Large at atlarge-lists.icann.org
> https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/at-large
>
> At-Large Official Site: http://atlarge.icann.org
> _______________________________________________
> By submitting your personal data, you consent to the processing of your
> personal data for purposes of subscribing to this mailing list accordance
> with the ICANN Privacy Policy (https://www.icann.org/privacy/policy) and
> the website Terms of Service (https://www.icann.org/privacy/tos). You can
> visit the Mailman link above to change your membership status or
> configuration, including unsubscribing, setting digest-style delivery or
> disabling delivery altogether (e.g., for a vacation), and so on.



-- 
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
     Dr. Alejandro Pisanty
Facultad de Química UNAM
Av. Universidad 3000, 04510 Mexico DF Mexico
+525541444475
Blog: http://pisanty.blogspot.com
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/pisanty
Unete al grupo UNAM en LinkedIn,
http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/22285/4A106C0C8614
Twitter: http://twitter.com/apisanty
---->> Unete a ISOC Mexico, http://www.isoc.org
.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/at-large/attachments/20220220/04533574/attachment.html>


More information about the At-Large mailing list