[105589] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Fri Jun 27 14:34:20 2008
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
To: Bill Nash <billn@billn.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806271051500.5759@pegasus.billn.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:34:11 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Jun 27, 2008, at 1:57 PM, Bill Nash wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Scott Francis wrote:
>
>> perhaps somebody with more insight can explain the rationale to me
>> (DRC?) - is there a purpose served here aside from corporate/legal
>> interests?
>
> It strikes me as fomenting another gold rush. The notion that
> disputed TLDs go up for auction sounds like a request for a nice,
> high quality money printing device. I may have skimmed over it, but
> where does the money from these auctions go? At the risk of invoking
> Ron Paul, this will turn TLDs into a fiat currency, and devalue the
> rest of them. A small subset of people will profit, and everyone
> else loses.
>
> Off the top of my head, I can see some high dollar fist fights
> breaking out for .sex, .porn, .games, .hotel, etc. It'll be like
> the .alt tree on usenet for people with money. There may also be an
> actual fist fight over TLDs like .irc, .leet, .goatse, and .krad.
> Maybe not .krad.
>
The Newdom WG was frequently insane, reaching its peak in the hack for
which Eugene Kashpureff went to jail.
I for one would not want to go there again.
> I agree with Scott, I'd rather see ICANN spend time on current
> problems instead of making new ones.
>
+1
> - billn
>
Marshall
