[CPWG] Are Blockchain Domains within the Mission of ICANN - WAS RE: Questions to the board about distributed DNS

[Chokri Ben Romdhane]

Dear Friends,

Please find  the record of  the  Emerging Identifier Technologies
<https://icann.zoom.us/rec/play/4ZhSDuzFnVqw66kYgnTuHdDzi_RH0IFCKqKuAzmmcFy7xUPX6aT1op_nmghEdsEV5jxGYZ_sInYl2Oow.4hEm0h7LHhMj6obE?startTime=1663743821000&_x_zm_rtaid=pNBkHu--SL-KGy5yfLrRoA.1664285662735.722e2ee0a7cb19b493f616b538af3f5b&_x_zm_rhtaid=161>
session
,  held during the ICANN75 meeting,  it provides some use cases of the
emerging  identifiers technologie.
Thank you @MOULOUD KHELIF <kelif at hotmail.com> for the reminder.

Friendly regards
Chokri


Le sam. 27 août 2022 à 19:17, Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org> a écrit :

> On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 5:39 AM Chokri Ben Romdhane <chokribr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>> But be aware  if you confirm that  the collision issues is/will never
>> happened , as you have mentioned in your previous mail, and cross your
>> finger that the regular DNS market will continue to attract more customers,
>> compared to those NFT, Blockchain TLDs considering the ease of DNS
>> management and security they are conferred to end users.
>>
>
> Hi again,
>
> You made one fatal error in your assessment above: Internet end-users are
> not registrants.
>
> End users don't care about DNS management, and the security THEY seek is
> access to registrant details in the case of domains used for abuse.
> The "security" you mention protects registrants and works against the
> interests of end-users.
>
> It's totally possible that the hubris of DNS alternatives may lead to
> collisions, but end-users will never see the effect of that, Browsers
> continue to use the ICANN root and to date have never seen the benefit of
> pointing to alternames. Plus, two of the biggest browser makers, Google and
> Microsoft, have a deep vested interest in obstructing any alternative DNS.
> Any alternate DNS hoping to be successful would need to create its own
> browser, which is what the TOR project did.
>
> So even if alternative DNSs create TLDs that duplicate ICANN's they will
> never present any collision or confusion to end-users. The only losers will
> be registrants in the alternate systems. I have zero pity for them and they
> are certainly not ALAC's concern or even ICANN's.
>
> Cheers,
> - Evan
>
>
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