snip "We at Afilias should be chosen
because we totally control the world of top level domains already."
"We at Afilias should be chosen because we know ICANN
better than anyone else."
Eliahu, you certainly sound sincere enough but this
is not the most convincing argument you could put forward.
Afilias is a rich company
there is no doubt (NSI alone sold for 21 billion dollars).
In the interests of
competition, however, the ideal would be to broarden the internet.
Imagine an internet
where your phone, your car, your home and your pacemaker could all communicate, where
your TV plays the programs you like when you like and your central heating automatically
subscribes to the most cost effective gas company. Where your doctor can monitor
your high blood pressure without you having to visit the hospital or your stolen
car phones you can let you know that its just called the police.
The internet will
not stay the same, it will get better and bigger.
Inviting one company to do the
same thing over again on its own would be an error.
Allowing that company to compete
with a second company would be beneficial.
Realisticly Afilias is not going to
get thrown out at this stage. The right thing to have done would have been to decline
the consortium as a monopoly and allow each of its members to compete independently.
At
this stage we are talking about whether Afilias gets a TLD or whether Afilias and
IOD both get TLDs.
It is not one or the other, it is one or both.
Your attack
on IOD simply serves to compare a fresh company with a few million in resources with
the established status quo that has several thousand million in resources.
Its
a complement that you feel they are comparable realy.
Anthony