ICAN issue or Regulating The "."!
- 1992/3 - 1996 - comercialisation still unregulated by US government
- infrastructure of runned by John Pastel, californian hippy (in a sigle "." dot file)
Jo Syms, lawyer (later to represent AOL/TimeWarner) helped
- >department of commerce became the body of policies
- 1998 John dies and ICANN corporation (defined as "californian public corporation", works for public good) submits their pruposal to regulate - UDRP - Uniform D Report P:
- Domain Name System
- IP numbers allocation
- Port resolution (like :80 for web)
FIRST TIME OUTSIDE UN regulating globaly adressing system that covers the whole world
in the same time organisations, actually manage the domain name:
- IETF - geeky "if it works" concept to meet good and simple ideas with engineering practices ... develop the standards {first succesfull non regulated/bureaucratic organisationla mechanisam}
- RIPs - regional organistions for ...
- IAB -
- IESG -
"task force" activity was by mistake mentioned by their lawyer and originaly featured just: RIAA, MPAA & Varizom
ICANN offered a presence to have people's voted represntatices (originally 6, but actually got 5 from UN regional division)
How to engage:
- if going after tham you legitimase tham
- if you go
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