My vision of your intuition

[Mike Norton <michael.a.norton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear ICANN:

 

Below are quotes (bold) from your latest strategic plan (2006-09) with my 
responses to each.  I hope these can be of assistance and forge a path to a 
mutually beneficial relationship.

 

Best,

 

Michael A. Norton

Writer.Director.Webologist

 

"-Multiple complicated changes to Internet operations or protocols that need to

be managed in parallel, including possible paradigm changes not yet

anticipated"

 

Please refer to the U.S.P.T.O. provisional application as mentioned in my prior 
correspondence with you (specifically, the Nominating Committee).  Parallel 
management is a key success metric in my plan which should override the threat 
of disruption with regard to future paradigm changes. Additionally, parallel 
device management will help sustain and protect the Internet's infrastructure 
while providing a sounder basis for market competition and innovation.   

 

"-Possible fracturing of the current system perhaps brought about by some users

becoming dissatisfied with perceived restrictions imposed by technical

protocols or by actions of a government or governments."

 

It ought to be a strong motivation for ICANN to educate the community on 
'perception' so much as to clearly identify 'restrictions' as 'parallel 
management operators' instead.

 

"-Many were of the view that there needs to clearer links between project

spending and measurable project outcomes. This would facilitate greater

accountability. There was also an acknowledgement that it is impossible to

allocate all of the budget on a project basis at the start of the year as the 
nature

of the ICANN environment means that there is always a significant amount of

each year?s budget that needs to be spent on items that could not have been

anticipated at the beginning of the year."

 

Accountability of scale might be added as a key motivator for clearer links.  
Clearer links between project spending and measurable project outcomes is 
something efficiently attainable by ICANN.  Perhaps the ICANN website overhaul 
could help facilitate this.

 

"-Others had a concern for the protection of the Root Server system itself,

suggesting that a plan is needed for improving the redundancy for distribution 

of the root zone. A review should be undertaken (possibly with outside

assistance) to determine how or whether root zone management might be

externally managed (ie outsourced)."

 

My provisional filing with USPTO could be well-addressed, well-formed, and 
better-developed with the assistance of ICANN with regard to externally 
improving the redundancy for distribution and protection of the Root Server 
system.  Parallel management of such could provide ICANN with a basis for 
internationalization and growth while providing end-users with a basis for 
protection and innovation.

 

"-The risks associated with multiple complicated changes to Internet operations

or protocols that need to be managed in parallel.

"-The need to educate the community on the impact of these changes on Internet

operations."

 

The second addressed need, Education, should explicitly precede the 
implicitly-managed "multiple complicated changes" in order to mitigate such 
associated risks; the perception of increased education through such changes 
could also mitigate the impact of such changes on Internet operations.

 

"-New TLDs are seen by others as important for the establishment of local

communities, and this is valuable because it is seen as giving more voice to

end users in those communities."

 

I could not agree with you more here, as long as integrity of parallel 
management is intact.  This could be assured by shifting the management 
paradigm of the current Internet to one of the future that is founded by a 
parallel management structure, or a Unified-Dynamic Domain Name Server system.

 

"-Others see efficient implementation of new TLDs as critical for the 
facilitation

of competition and consumer choice"

 

Big time, as long as the nature of new TLDs serve as "extended" from current 
TLDs rather then as "appended without relevant connection". 

 

*On "Competition & Choice"*

 

"-For some, competition means letting the market determine what should happen.

For example, allow many more TLDs and let the market decide whether they

are sustainable. If some fail, so be it. From their perspective, consumer

protection is not in ICANN?s mission. Over-regulation is stifling innovation."

 

Constraint powers creativity.  Some crazy playright contended such many years 
ago.  Essentially, the Web is the first invention designed without scale; in 
other words, inherent in its nature it is to cross lines.  Many more TLDs 
should not be allowed without an integrity-rich parallel management program in 
place.  Provided W3C scripting technologies adjunct Root Server management 
scenarios, this can be successfully acheived while improving ICANN's 
internationalization efforts and helping them reach some of their original 
goals.

 

"-Others see competition as valuable in as much as it provides benefits to

Internet users, not as an end in itself. The need to provide stability is more

important, suggesting that the freedom of the market needs to be moderated by

the need to provide protection for end users."

 

I agree with this and the idea that in essence the Internet remains "free", 
meaning the will of the users is not taxed; instead it is protected via 
stability and rewarded by market innovation --a result of community education, 
integrity, and perception.

 

"-Communication needs to be improved, and, in particular, the ICANN website

needs a major overhaul so that it is more accessible for everyone who might

have an interest in issues that are discussed within the ICANN community."

 

I agree.  Let's apply my model to the ICANN website.  A visual form of 
"Parallel management" at work.  Statistics come to life by the visual aid of 
the Internet.  Education extended via the protection of sound management 
policies.   

 

I know that I am not at the center of the universe, but I can assure you that I 
am pretty damn close!  What do you think?

 

 



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