New ICANN Chair Peter Dengate Thrush
Peter Dengate Thrush to head ICANN.
A New Zealand barrister with a specialization in intellectual property,
Josh asks: “”What are his biases with respect to the public domain vs. trademark holders?”"
http://www.domainnamenews.com/icann-policy/icann-board-elects-peter-dengate-thrush-new-chairman/1293
icann wiki: http://icannwiki.org/Peter_Dengate_Thrush
***FS*** Most New Zealanders I’ve ever met strike me as fair minded straight-shooters.. there must be something in the water down there.. If that alone rings true in Mr. Thrush’s case then oportunity and entrepreneurship should continue to thrive across the naming spectrum. Fairness, balance and less ”beholden-ness” <– look mom I made up a word .. and less “Verisign persuasion” are what ICANN needs more of.
The same could be said about Canada and Canadians. There must be something in the water up there. Be careful about drawing conclusions based on great nations and large groups of fair people.
When individuals step out of those large nations and become part of the small ICANN clique, they collectively become a small cancer that grows and grows. Follow the money, a $5,000,000 annual budget is now $50,000,000. This past week there was a short set of joking remarks about the new Quarter-Billion dollar budget. The departing Chairman did not like the way that “sounded and steered the discussion to use the words $250,000,000 budget. It is all spin and their view is likely that they get a buck from each future domain owner each year, to travel and party.
As Newt Gingrich now often points out, the individuals in Washington D.C. are each very nice and well-meaning. He notes that one can go there and have lunch with 3 of them and come away feeling very good. Unfortunately, the people are part of a system which he describes as “terribly broken”. The people have no ability to change anything. They also are paid by “the system” and clearly enjoy living off of others. They view that as their right, as supreme “players”. It is all a game, which they spin as serious business (with Aussie and NZ accents).
For some domainers, the future will be very bright, for others there is going to be tough sledding ahead. Since ICANN is largely now controlled by the same crowd that controls the IOC, WTO, and WIPO domainers will see strange decisions emerge from groups of people who each never use the Internet, or own a domain. They prefer to “own” the control levers that allow them to keep the masses off-balance chasing their
tails. The masses never collectively ask, “who elected you king?”. [Their answer would likely be that they are not elected, they are self-appointed royalty and someone has to play that role.]
Watch for the “Royals” to start working hard to
bring the .COMmoners in line. They (secretly) plan to start taking down the 3-Letter .COM names. Forget about the 2-Letter .COM and 1-Letter .COMs, those are already history.
A group like the WTO prefers to see the 3-Letter .COM names removed rather than run the risk of having “confusion”. People completely miss that the WTO has for many years been run from New Zealand. Some have already forgotten the WTO fiasco in Seattle.
Vinton Cerf now continues his social climbing which is the essence of his career. He now moves on to “RIO” as the ICANN delegate to the “IGF”. He of course will also be helping move THE Clintons back into the whitehouse next year with the homecoming gift of “USA”. The world is starting to prepare for four years of “SEX”.
New Zealand and Canada really like their .SEX.
They like it “HOT” and straight up and wide open.
TLD is a 3-letter word along with “MAN”.
Stay tuned as the WTO (ICANN) take control of all 3-letter sequences. It is all about control.
They have to be on “TOP”. They already slipped in
.CAT and next will be .DOG. ISO has the official list ready and the FCC will rubber stamp it.
Domainers are advised to stick with .COM.
Don’t even think about taking any of the “Royals”
private collection of 3-letter words. Just fall
in line like a good litle .SERF (or CERF).
I suspect Mr Dengate-Thrush as Chair is the best thing to happen to ICANN for Joe Blow registrant in a very long time. He’s not your run-of-the-mill IP shark. IIRC he stood and spoke strongly in favour of a Registrants Constituency in ICANN Santiago in 1999.
And I’ll take a US President addicted to .sex over a US President addicted to .oil .cocaine and .money any day of the week, thank you very much.
***FS*** There’s something about Kiwi’s I like and admire
“Internet Governance for Development”
Somehow I do not think they use the word “Development” the same way that Domainers do.
http://www.igfbrazil2007.br/docs/Release-IGF-291007-ing.pdf
Over 1,000 participants to attend Internet Governance Forum,
Rio de Janeiro, 12 - 15 November 2007
New York/Geneva/Rio de Janeiro, 25 October – Well over 1,000 representatives from
government, the private sector and civil society, as well as the academic and technical
communities, are expected to gather in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the second meeting of the
Internet Governance Forum (IGF), taking place from 12 to 15 November 2007.
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, two of the founding fathers of the Internet and co-inventors of the
TCP/IP protocols, will be attending.
“Internet Governance for Development” will be the overall theme. The meeting will consist of
five main sessions structured along the following themes:
Critical Internet Resources – Infrastructure and the management of critical resources such as
domain name system and Internet protocol addresses.
Access - Internet connectivity: policy and cost.
Diversity - Promoting multilingualism and local content
Openness - Freedom of expression; free flow of information; empowerment and access to
knowledge
Security - Creating trust and confidence through collaboration
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It should warm .COM Domainer’s hearts that they are paying for thousands of .ORG people to vacation in RIO.
This is similar to the Summit held years ago in Japan to discuss “world hunger”. The group spent $12,000,000 on the dinner which included building the temporary building to hold the event.
When .ORG is removed from the root-zone, many of the world’s network problems will end.
You can buy ICANN-ORG.com for about $10. That is about what ICANN is worth.