[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] NTIA letter to ICANN re whois
Sam Lanfranco
sam at lanfranco.net
Wed Apr 18 20:55:49 UTC 2018
At the risk of being further drummed out of this RDS camp, I find the
letter neither bad nor amusing. The limiting of WhoIS access by one
registrar is an early warning that if ICANN does not resolve these
issues within its multistakeholder process, other stakeholders will take
independent action in their own self-interest as they perceive it. Both
nature and policy abhor a vacuum
Second, the security of domain name ownership and the process of
ownership transfer sit right in the crosshairs of evolving distributed
ledger (e.g. blockchain) solutions to handing ownership and transfers. I
have a bottle of wine bet with a friend that a distributed ledger
application will dis-intermediate the handling of domain name ownership
and transfers. Registrars will have to survive on value added services,
with ICANN facing reduced fee revenues.
Any distributed ledger application is not likely to be a private
distributed ledger, which would probably be seen as a cartel in
restraint of competition, and more likely will be a federated or
consortium solution. It could be a public solution if the stakeholder
community moves slow enough. As John B. says, the choices are on the
table, and the slower the response the higher the probability of actions
(including dis-intermediation) from others.
Sam L.
On 4/18/2018 3:15 PM, John Bambenek via gnso-rds-pdp-wg wrote:
> Please include the following in documents for this wg.
>
> https://regmedia.co.uk/2018/04/17/ntia-icann-whois-apr18.pdf
>
> --
> John Bambenek
>
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