Re: [SLUG] Ever heard of OpenNic?

From: Russell Hires (rhires@earthlink.net)
Date: Sun Jul 15 2001 - 18:54:55 EDT


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I did a little more reading on this whole issue after my original post. They
simply propose to become what ICANN should be (according to them): truly
democratic. One person one vote. Their thought is to have various non-profit
entities keep control over their system, and a vote of the majority can
overturn any policy or create new ones....I guess I'm also looking at this
from their democratic perspective (good propaganda on their part, eh?) as
they both rail against large (semi-)non-accountable organizations, and yet
allow provision for such entities to exist anyway.

On the other hand, perhaps this is just an attempt to get The Powers That Be
to adopt some democratic reforms when it comes to TLD's...They are taking an
extreme position simply to cause some movement in their direction (such as
Huey Long during the depression: he caused FDR to make his social programs
more generous because Long was proposing even more generous packages himself
if he got elected president).

BTW, since the internet is global in nature, and the way that current IPv4
addresses are allocated (the majority being available only in the US, and
nowhere else), how long will it be before IPv6 hits the streets in any
forceful way?

Russell
>
> I'm sorry, but I've got to disagree with the idea of "rogue" TLDs. Yes,
> ICANN is moving slowly on adding TLDs, and I don't know why. Yes, I
> understand about the seemingly anarchic nature of the internet. However,
> the system was built on a good framework that has served well for many
> years. As noted in other posts, rogue TLDs add an unnecessary level of
> complexity to internet navigation. I don't know that much about ICANN,
> but I'd have to assume that having TLD addition in the hands of ICANN is
> better than having it in the hands of a lot of little (or big) companies
> who have a profit interest in adding their own TLDs. What if a company
> like Microsoft got into this business, and convinced everyone that it
> was a great idea to be part of the MSFT domain? Or AOL? Then you have a
> situation where one or two profit-taking companies control a sizable
> portion of the TLDs on the internet, as opposed to something like ICANN.
>
> Paul
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