michael gurstein on Sun, 11 Mar 2012 02:20:21 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> What do you think about .art? |
While not disagreeing with Ted's overall pessimism as to the likely outcome of this particular development it is well to note that the announcement indicated that the decision was being made on behalf of the "global internet community". Further, a key stated justification for the decision was NTIA's demand that the IANA contractor - ICANN - must document that all new gTLD delegations are in "the global public interest". While as Ted suggests the NTIA (and the USG) are most certainly arrogating to themselves (and to the governments of Russia, China, uncle Tom Cobley and all) the right to define what is meant by and how to operationalize the "global public interest" in this sphere, as we have just seen through the backdown of the USG in the face of a truly massive (and unexpected onslaught) concerning SOPA/PIPA there are folks out there--who with their clout, numbers and smarts may be in a position to successfully take and define an alternative position. These are interesting times in Internet land. M -----Original Message----- From: nettime-l-bounces@mail.kein.org [mailto:nettime-l-bounces@mail.kein.org] On Behalf Of t byfield Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 4:48 PM To: nettime-l@kein.org Subject: Re: <nettime> What do you think about .art? rob@robmyers.org (Sat 03/10/12 at 06:25 PM +0000): > Also, I demand a .marx domain. The question's moot now because NTIA just announced that it was canceling the RFP for IANA: https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=e90ec616702fd6 c52c91c0e67ccbf501&_cview=0 In plainspeak, that means the US government was unhappy enough with ICANN to deny it the power to enter new gTLDs into the root. This will undermine ICANN's legitimacy, maybe terminally. Once the IANA function is unbundled from ICANN, what's left? An expensive, contoversial, and incompetent pseudo- regulatory Californian legal entity masquerading as wannabe multilateral organization. <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org