Civil Society Statement on GAC Sub-Group's Proposal on "Geographic Names" in Top Level Domain Names

[Nicolas Adam]

It'd be probably more useful to have a definition of nice things that a 
domain name is (that is, nice things that a domain name ought to be, but 
that we conveniently confuse with nice things that a domain name is in 
our definition) than to have a definition of the PI (although this was 
very constructive and I support the work on PI framing). This would be 
more workable than the latter also, would probably have more tooth and 
would be more difficult to oppose if well crafted (it's hard to muster a 
sustained opposition to the apple pie for example).

For instance, domain names are

  *


  * an alphanumeric string with meaning
  * endlessly creative, their meaning is non-rival (you can always come
    up with another string that will mean the same)
  * gateways by which Internet innovation reaches us
  * levelers of the Internet ecosystem's field and enablers of fair
    competition
  * our roadmap to the open internet they are reachable and uncensorable
  *

That kind of approach would be more rights-based. I don't know if this 
is an interesting idea let alone a relevant one, but ... I have my 
fingers connected directly with my brain with no filter this morning so 
I'm throwing this out there. The definition points above are absolutely 
lacking but they convey the idea.

Nicolas


On 29/12/2014 5:25 PM, Timothe Litt wrote:
>
> But one of these days it would be nice to change the conversation to 
> include how to create and protect the rights of non-corporate domain 
> name holders. 

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