At 12:17 22/07/2011, Timothe Litt wrote:

Like driving, a network presence, including a domain name, is a privilege and not an absolute right.

Who decided that? Milton has addressed that point. However, Milton reintroduces the point when he states: " Instead we put limits on who can access this database (the police, LEAs) and the uses to which the data can be put." Who is "we". There is a single authority: the zone manager, there is only one law: the national law of the zone manager. There is only one rule to respect: the most stringent sovereign privacy rule, worldwide - otherwise there is not world of right. Now, let me clarify. There is no right or privilege in Internet use, there are facts. Rights and privileges may only concern Internet usages and people's Internet related behaviours and be enforced by governance regalian entities. The Internet is a technical consensus It works the way its programs are written. Programs are written to work. To obtain it, developers consider RFCs in the OSI layers 1 to 7; and listen to the users (the "market") otherwise. This is why the Internet constitution is in the code, not in the ICANN community. ICANN is the leader of one of the communities populating the Internet community, which is actually a community of communities. In the sole naming area, the Internet community has : - one single rule which is the DNS that provide information enough (mail, nameserver, registry, zone manager) to be maintained. - at least seven sub-communities that technology MUST support: 1. ICANN full-rate gTLDs, the vip@icann.org mailing list should discuss the technical requirements. 2. ICANN JAS-rated. There is no indication yet about their possible technical difference with the above. 3. open source gTLDs. 4. government created gTLD, e.g. China. 5. ISO 3166/MA decided ccTLDs. 6. industrial community (GSMA, Google, etc.) to support their own root. Who knows about .gsm? 7. non-Internet limited emergent IUse community and IUI (Intelligent Use Interface) related worked-on technologies. IDNA2008 exemplified how RFCs fully support it. ICANN has documented this situation. That was through its 2001 ICP-3, <http://www.icann.org/en/icp/icp-3.htm>http://www.icann.org/en/icp/icp-3.htm that states: "In an ever-evolving Internet, ultimately there may be better architectures for getting the job done where the need for a single, authoritative root will not be an issue. But that is not the case today. And the transition to such an architecture, should it emerge, would require community-based approaches. In the interim, responsible experimentation should be encouraged". In 2011, in approving the gTLDs system, ICANN has acknowledged that what was not the case in 2001 is in fact the case today. The single, authoritative root is not a limited file anymore that is disseminated by the root server system. ICANN tends to present it as an open file while IUI sees it as a virtual matrix with millions of dimensions. IUI responds to the WSIS demand for a people centered society and inherits from a community experience that was acquired along the ICP-3 rules ("dot-root" project): everyone runs and creates his/her own needed part of a root that is not limited to names of the sole Internet. This results from a third principle in the Internet architecture (RFC 1958: permanent change; RFC 3439: simplicity) the principle of subsidiarity that IDNA2008 exemplifies. IDNA2008 was a positive surprise. The IDNA2008 positive surprise was that subsidiarity is built-in the Internet architecture from the very begining. There is not a single bit to change. However, what has not been done yet is to document the transition to get rid of the unnecessary added-complexity that has accumulated over the decades and to welcome the permitted innovation. This is the challenge: to simultaneously support and test opposed transitions like ICANN and IUse (and what is in between) without confusing either of them. This is why both of them have engaged in an analysis and documentation efforts and should try to cooperate (e.g. http://idna2010) This is why we need a consensual cooperation. However, this cooperation is to be engaged in a technically and politically confused context due to the complementary charters of IETF and of the UNICODE Consortium, and to the discrepancies between the GAC and the WSIS objectives. 1. Clarification was obtained last year from IESG and IAB through my appeal over the IESG misrepresentation of the importance of IDNA2008. I could summarize it as: the IUI is an interface between the Internet (and alternate network technologies) and the external world. IETF is competent and interested in what belongs to or impacts the Internet but does not want to engage outside of the Internet area. 2. A clarification should be found with UNICODE through the "stringprep" replacement. IDNA2003 used "stringprep" to interface UNICODE to punycode entries. Stringprep is used by other IETF protocols but turns obsolete, since IDNA2008 does not use it anymore, freeing IDNA from Unicode versioning. The IETF (WG/PRECIS) tries to work out a solution. For good reasons that have endangered the IDNA2008 consensus, IUsers have a different vision of Unicode deliverables, and would like to consider starting at a deeper point of simplicity. IDNA2008 has protected IDNA from Unicode versioning. IUsers would like the IUI to protect them from Unicode and to void the need for stringprep in considering a no-phishing network protocol oriented scripting based on the visual aspects of the characters symbols in an unique common fount. This would remove the Unicode consortium from the network multilingualization loop and ease the naming adminance (long-term netkeeping, as opposed to medium-term governance and short-term operance). Two systems are actually of no real technical and operational use in well organized and secure DNS operations: - the root server system that answers 96% of erroneous requests and data everyone already has. - the WHOIS is system that violates the privacy law of most of the countries having one - and is a source for spaming, spoofing, etc. In addition, one system will become local and needs to get reviewed now ICANN has started selling $ 185.000 + expenses what everyone can deploy for free and get used by billions (reasonably within less than five years due to existing RFCs, word of the mouth, testing, new products and services being supported) or Google can deploy in minutes. That system is the ICANN whole technico-legal system itself. This means that the priority is to correctly insert that ICANN system into the foreseeable future development of the world digital ecosystem (WDE). This is to protect stable operations and usage by its customers. This cannot be done by rules or agreements (you cannot negotiate with billions of individuals). It can only be done through: - a stable, secure, simple, innovative technology these individuals will want to use for free as a "Plus" to the Internet they are used to utilize everyday. For many reasons IAB started to document IDNinApplication and xNAMES in the DNS as we consider them today are inadequate. However, a reponse MUST be found. - and support services they will competitively adopt. I doubt the WHOIS is going to be a major part of such services: because it does not propose anything to the advantage of the registrant. Ths WHOIS only was a Jon Postel's tool to manage "his" network with people moving around every academic year. A dinosaur. What actually IDNA2008 says is: here the way for DNS oriented concerns to interface the Internet DNS. The rest is to be entirely reviewed accordingly. Best jfc