Re: [ga-roots] Two standards

[Eric Dierker <eric@hi-tek.com>]

It is not so doom and gloom.  When the bully makes an ass out of himself
he loses some of his power.  As Michael Powell noted in his interview
recently, we need less regulation and not more.  It is consumer choices
which will drive this ether communicated world.  ICANN is really not
holding up anyone.  Technical and commercial forces are moving as fast as
they can at 10,000 new users a day- 400 plus per hour.  Catch a movie and
have a nice dinner and you have just missed over a thousand new
customers.  ICANN controlling or slowing things down is like Wilbur
stopping a train wreck.

Our tiny little company drives over 14 million hits per month, and we do
not focus on driving hits, we just build them and they come. Do you think
we could not throw a million or so toward or against an alt root.  ICANN
is good for discussion, but if you think they control the net and hold
things up - rethink.

eric(or has the "names" council given me a new one - oops that is outside
their scope)

Marc Schneiders wrote:

> Apparently there are two standards in operation. That is if I
> understand Cochetti some 10 minutes ago on the NC webcast.
>
> We should let VeriSign go on with its multilingual testbed, although
> there is no IETF standard, nor an ICANN board decision regarding
> non-ASCII domain names. They cannot freeze for two months
> until the IETF sets a standard. Why? Because otherwise others will run
> away with it and make the money, in stead of the ICANN backud up
> companies...
>
> However, where there are already TLDs running, for years, in the
> normal English language ASCII world, there we should protect against
> outside of ICANN processes. Therefore we ignore the alt roots, new.net
> and the like. We have a strong enough foot in this market and use
> ICANN to keep others out. So we do not even want to discuss talking to
> these others.
>
> If ICANN buys this line, it clearly shows that it is just legitimizing
> some favoured companies.
>
> Two standards. The only difference: we have the market already, or we
> don't. Are we buying this?
>
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