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Kieren<br>
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I think your analysis is quite correct. But appearing regularly in
the WSJ also means that the view is being picked up by
business/financial types in cities like New York. It is a bigger
base than just Congresspeople. And they are probably more
influential on the range of Republican candidates for President. <br>
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I hope this process is completed before mid-2016. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/20/15 4:47 AM, Kieren McCarthy
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<div dir="ltr">This is just the latest in a series of knowingly
slanted columns from Crovtiz on this.
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<div>At one point Larry Strickling got so sick of them that he
sent a letter to the WSJ complaining about how patently biased
they were.
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<div>More info: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/09/commerce_secretary_engages_in_war_of_words_with_wsj_over_iana/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/09/commerce_secretary_engages_in_war_of_words_with_wsj_over_iana/</a></div>
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<div>I'm not sure that anyone takes Crovitz seriously but his
columns are used by Republicans in Congress to bolster their
pre-decided position. So in that sense, they can't be
ignored. But at the same time, he has decided what the
reality is so there's little point in discussing them
either.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Paul
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style="font-size:30.0pt">Obama’s Bungled
Internet Surrender</span></h1>
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style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666;letter-spacing:-.1pt;font-weight:normal">The
group the White House favors for online
oversight is turning into an abusive
monopolist.</span></h2>
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17, 2015 5:39 p.m. ET</span></p>
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<p
style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:13.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px"><span
style="color:#333333">President Obama’s
plan to give up protection of the open
Internet is wreaking havoc even though it
will probably never be carried out. In
anticipation of the end of U.S.
stewardship, the organization the White
House wants to give more power has become
an abusive monopolist, refusing to be held
accountable by the Internet’s
stakeholders.</span></p>
<p
style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:13.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px"><span
style="color:#333333">The administration
last year announced its intention to
abandon the contract the Commerce
Department has held since the beginning of
the Web with the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann.
Congress used its power of the purse to
block the move, which had been set for
September this year.</span></p>
<p
style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:13.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px"><span
style="color:#333333">But the prospect of
escaping U.S. oversight led Icann to deny
accountability even for its core duty of
keeping its monopoly over Web addresses
working smoothly. The House Judiciary
Committee last week held a hearing titled
“Stakeholder Perspectives on Icann: The
.Sucks Domain and Essential Steps to
Guarantee Trust and Accountability in the
Internet’s Operation.”</span></p>
<p
style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:13.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px"><span
style="color:#333333">The .sucks domain
was one of hundreds of new top-level
domains Icann added beyond the original
.com, .org and .gov. Icann, organized as a
nonprofit, collects a fee each time it
approves a new top-level domain and gets a
cut of the registration charge for
individual domain names. The corporation’s
total take so far from the new domains is
more than $300 million.</span></p>
<p
style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:13.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px"><span
style="color:#333333">The Intellectual
Property Constituency, an Icann
stakeholder group, calls the .sucks domain
“predatory, exploitative and coercive.”
Judiciary chairman Bob Goodlatte says
trademark holders are “being shaken
down”—compelled to buy new addresses
defensively to prevent their use.</span></p>
<p
style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px"><span
style="color:#333333">Apple bought
applestore.sucks. Gmail, Sam’s Club, Uber
and <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://quotes.wsj.com/YHOO"
target="_blank"><span
style="color:#0080c3;text-decoration:none">Yahoo</span></a>registered
.sucks addresses, as did celebrities
including Taylor Swiftand Kevin
Spacey. The standard price: $2,499, versus
$10 for unclaimed .com addresses.</span></p>
<p
style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:13.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px"><span
style="color:#333333">Mr. Goodlatte says
the approval of .sucks “demonstrates the
absurdity and futility of Icann’s own
enforcement processes.” Instead of
policing itself, Icann asked the Federal
Trade Commission to look into whether the
.sucks domain is abusive. Philip Corwin, a
lawyer for the Internet Commerce
Association, wrote on the CircleID
website: “This is the equivalent of
sending a message stating: ‘Dear
Regulator: We have lit a fuse. Can you
please tell us whether it is connected to
a bomb?’ ”</span></p>
<p
style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:13.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px"><span
style="color:#333333">Mr. Corwin told
lawmakers the U.S. has been a “useful and
corrective restraint on Icann” and a
“first line of defense against any attempt
at multilateral takeover and conversion to
a government-dominated organization,” so
“should exercise strong oversight in
support of Icann’s stakeholders” in any
transition of the contract.</span></p>
<p
style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:13.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px"><span
style="color:#333333">The Internet ain’t
broke, and Mr. Obama shouldn’t have tried
to fix it. Icann and its stakeholders have
spent the past year exhausting themselves
on the impossible mission the White House
set for them. They were tasked with
finding some way to keep Icann operating
with accountability but without U.S.
oversight. Unsurprisingly, no one found a
viable alternative.</span></p>
<p
style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:13.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px"><span
style="color:#333333">Mr. Obama may be
uncomfortable with American
exceptionalism, but the Internet since its
launch has reflected U.S. values of free
speech and open innovation. That is why
China, Russia and other authoritarian
regimes lust for the power to control it.</span></p>
<p
style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:13.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px"><span
style="color:#333333">Some stakeholders
proposed a new institution to oversee
Icann, while others wanted to build more
accountability within Icann.</span></p>
<p
style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:13.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px"><span
style="color:#333333">Last week Icann
chief Fadi Chehade told the French news
agency AFP that China and Brazil agreed
with Icann’s proposals to end U.S.
oversight and let Icann oversee itself:
“It is now up to the community to wrap
them up, put them in a nice little box
with a bow and ship them to Washington.”</span></p>
<p
style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:13.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px"><span
style="color:#333333">Even the Obama
administration knows Mr. Chehade’s
nonaccountability approach is a
nonstarter. The .sucks saga shows that
Icann won’t protect the Internet from
unscrupulous business practices, never
mind authoritarian regimes.</span></p>
<p
style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:13.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px"><span
style="color:#333333">The Commerce
Department recently asked several
stakeholder groups how far past the
original September date it would take to
propose and implement alternatives to U.S.
protection. The Obama administration still
acts as if it can give up the contract
overseeing Icann, but it can’t. Congress
banned any steps by Commerce to give up
the contract before the date in September,
when the agreement must be renewed for two
more years. This means Mr. Obama’s
successor will decide.</span></p>
<p
style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:13.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px"><span
style="color:#333333">The administration
should tell Icann and the stakeholders to
use the next two years to focus on
creating accountability for Icann. If the
White House persists in its wrongheaded
idea to give up U.S. protection for the
Internet, it should take the precaution of
buying up ObamaInternetPlan.sucks.</span></p>
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