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Home 27 Jul 2007 What's worth putting on the net Last year I was exchanging e-mail with an aquaintance in Africa about setting up web sites, who said: I would be interesting to know what mistakes made in North America and how they were addressed. The major mistake was to assume that the most important use of the net was to distribute content from a relatively small set of sources out to the masses, and that the masses would pay for the privilege. In fact, people put a much higher value on one-to-one or one-to-few communication, and the number of content providers that successfully sell information can be counted on your fingers. See more ... posted at: 10:43 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/afr.trackback 03 Jul 2007 Comments on ICANN's registry failure plans ICANN On June 1st, ICANN publised a short report on what they plan to do about registry failure. (It's not a failure plan, it's a plan to develop a plan.) They invited me to comment on it, so here's what I said. You can see all the comments on ICANN's web site; the only other substantial one is the one from Chuck Gomes, although Ed Hasbrouck's questions about the secret amendments to the .AERO registry are interesting, too. Most of the report is pretty good. The first three sections give a good overview of the software and data involved in running a registry. I agree with the taxonomy of failure scenarios in section 5. Section 4 tells us that voluntary transitions have consistently worked well, so there is little reason to spend much time and effort worrying about them or setting rules for them. Sections 6 and 7 are less good. I realize that they're just guidelines for future work, but they have some problematic implicit assumptions, and do not, in my opinion, set out an adequate task list to prepare for many likely failure scenarios. See more ... posted at: 00:08 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/regfail.trackback

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