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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I still just don’t get this.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">From the standpoint of a trained political economist, If the city of Syracuse recognizes air rights it is not producing
a product, it is defining property rights, which is what legislators & regulators do. The private entity who buys or acquires the rights and puts them to use (e.g., constructing a building) is producing a product.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">To take the analogy further, the FCC defines the rules for exclusive or nonexclusive radio spectrum rights. Those
rights can sell for billions of dollars. No one where I come from call the FCC a producer of a “product;” they call it the regulator of the spectrum. They call Verizon, AT&T, et al – the enterprises who acquire and put to use the spectrum – producers of a
product. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Likewise, ICANN, as regulator of the DNS, recognizes exclusive rights to TLD strings, which are then acquired by
businesses. It is, therefore, still more accurate to call it a regulator and coordinator of the DNS than to say it is engaged in product production.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I suspect this whole debate has lost its point, however. If you want to call ICANN a producer of a product and
its ability to add TLDs to the root it’s fine. But let’s not ever lose sight of the fact that it’s a regulator, not a corporate enterprise.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">
NCSG-Discuss [mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of
</span></b>Sam Lanfranco<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, March 31, 2015 11:56 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [NCSG-Discuss] [Info] IPC Letter to ICANN regarding .SUCKS<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Milton,
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When the municipal government in (say) Syracuse creates/recognizes "air rights" over a downtown building, and those become marketable and the next property buys them to build a tall building next door, they are a product. From the vantage point of a trained
economist, I don't see how the notion of product will not be brought to bear here. There are too many legal issues and externalities involved for that to not happen.
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As for ICANN, let the process unfold and in a decade, or less, after some case law and interventions at various levels of governance, we can revisit your question.
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I am happy to stand or fall based on the evidence as it rolls out, or or doesn't.<br>
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Sam <br>
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</span></font><font color="#330033"><span style="color:#330033">On 31/03/2015 10:06 AM, Milton L Mueller wrote:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#330033" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#330033"> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.8pt"><b><font size="2" color="#330033" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#330033;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" color="#330033" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#330033">
Sam Lanfranco [<a href="mailto:lanfran@yorku.ca">mailto:lanfran@yorku.ca</a>] <br>
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I purposefully used "product" since the mantra within ICANN is that being a "<i><span style="font-style:italic">regulator and coordinator of the global DNS</span></i>" means that it is not engaged in product production.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">And you think it is engaged in product production? What is its product, pray tell?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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