[WSIS CS-Plenary] Fwd: RE: [icann-board] Fwd: [GKD-DOTCOM] Cyber-Security and E-commerce

[Vinton G. Cerf]

Vittorio,

This is an interesting issue -  as long as registration is competitive, I hope we could avoid dictating the business positions of
the competing registrars.

Vint



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vittorio Bertola [mailto:vb at bertola.eu.org] 
> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 6:37 AM
> To: plenary at wsis-cs.org
> Cc: marta at unet.com.mk; Vinton G. Cerf
> Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Fwd: RE: [icann-board] Fwd: 
> [GKD-DOTCOM] Cyber-Security and E-commerce
> 
> On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 22:15:02 +0300, Veni Markovski 
> <veni at veni.com> wrote:
> 
> >Dear Nabil,
> >please, feel free to forward this to the GKD-DOTCOM mailing 
> list. I am 
> >writing to Marta from Makedonia, as well. Hope this brings 
> some more light 
> >into the discussion.
> >
> >I hope that we can keep the communication off the mailing 
> list, if people 
> >are not interested.
> 
> I find this episode (if I understand it well) really 
> interesting. Of course
> it is true that, as Vint said, there is no obligation to do 
> business in
> every country - but the ICANN registry/registrar system, as a 
> whole, has to
> guarantee access to generic domain names to the whole world. 
> 
> In other words, as long as it is a single registrar refusing 
> to do business
> with Macedonia or Bulgaria, you could still accept it as 
> normal business
> dynamics; but if a significant percentage of ICANN's 
> accredited registrars
> did the same, then the situation would be unacceptable, as it 
> would unfairly
> discriminate access from certain parts of the world to a 
> globally shared
> resource.
> 
> Perhaps ICANN has to think at how it can solve this problem 
> by preserving
> market competition while still ensuring a sort of "universal service"
> access.
> -- 
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