Thanks for forwarding this article, but I wonder at Crawford's arguments. The first focus of it appears to be on internationalized domains which, to my knowledge, is not the major complaint. In fact, in practice many countries already have their own local subnets in other character sets and simply want to place them in the general DNS. The idea that the U.S. Gov't wants to and could stop IDNs is unrealistic and not what I've seen in the debates so far, it's a misleading opener. As for "a group of people and companies (led by the Association of National Advertisers) that isn't happy with the results of the ICANN process is taking a second bite at the apple", I ask, what was the first bite? It seems to me that trademarks have been trampled for years in DNS and consumers end up paying the price with fraud, counterfeit products, and abuse. Crawford wants us to consider "the 5 billion people who aren't yet online." I consider them potential victims of system which will easily overwhelm them without proper protections. I also take issue with her assertion that "ICANN operates by consensus" when ALACs advice is ignored. -------------------------------------------------- From: "Joly MacFie" <joly@punkcast.com> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 4:38 PM To: "NA Discuss" <na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Subject: [NA-Discuss] Susan Crawford Op-ed on new gTLDs
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-06/name-calling-on-the-internet-is-ser...
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