John and all, Exactly right, IMO! And it is the fact that ICANN is either releuctant to act or take some immediate action a la RegistryFly, to address registry/registrar errant behavior is what is at the crux of the issue here. So what's going to end up happening and to some extent is in effect now, is that governments will start creating regulation and "Legal Rules" that will pick up the slack ICANN is leaving. Some may find this approach undesirable. -----Original Message-----

From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> Sent: Mar 24, 2008 10:31 AM To: Ross Rader <ross@tucows.com> Cc: At-Large Worldwide <alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Subject: Re: [At-Large] GNSO Review

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completely agree with your view of the pyramid, but would want to understand more what ICANN has to do with the general internet vs. its specific area of capability (domains, dns, etc.).

Putting words in Evan's mouth, it's the effect that domains and DNS have on the general interest. For example, to the extent that ICANN either has rules that encourage phishing or fails to enforce rules that would deter it, it is not acting in the public interst that its status as a non-profit requires it to do.

R's, John

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