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APTLD - Taipei
Peter de Blanc
[email protected]
http://www.nic.vi
APTLD-Taipei 26 Aug 2001
► Thank
you for the invitation to participate!
► Disclaimer:
 The comments, suggestions, and ideas
expressed in this presentation are my own.
 These proposals have not been published or
posted, and there is no consensus yet.
 In the interests of a more clear communication,
I may us language that is not “diplomatic”.
 Any statistics referenced may be approximate.
Peter de Blanc [email protected]
AP-ccTLD-ICANN
Relationships
The Money
The Power
The Credibility and The Balance
Where is the Money?
► 30
Million names in .com, .org, .net
 New registrations thru July, 2001: 3,123,612
► VeriSign
has about 50% share as registrar
► England registers 150,000 per month
► Over 100,000 “testbed” IDNS
► Increasing Trade name protection in ccTLD
► However: 180 ccTLDs under 50,000 names
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Where is the Power
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Facilitating Trade: All countries
 Access Internet users as a market for domain names.
 Access to consumers for advertising and e-commerce.
ccTLD diversity, lends Legitimacy, 244 ccs
► G8 countries, 7 looking for balance with US
► EU: already in WTO disputes with US on several matters.
► Regional Internet Associations (cc only)
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North America
Asia Pacific
European Union
Latin America
Africa and Middle East
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The Credibility and Balance
► ICANN
needs ccTLD to provide credibility.
► Without ccTLD ICANN is clearly US-centric
► ICANN will attempt to make individual deals with
strong countries one by one.
► In some cases ICANN may succeed with this.
► This could increase “Internet colonialism”
► A strong ccTLD is the key to balance of money,
power, credibility.
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ccTLD Issues
► International
Domain Names
► New gTLDs and their impact
► Procedure for update of IANA database
► Contract with ICANN
► Pressure to include “universal” UDRP
► Representation Level in ICANN
► Financial contributions to ICANN
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International Domain Names
► Where
is control of namespace?
► Issues of National Pride and Solidarity
► The money.
► Possible solutions by negotiation
Devise a method, political and technical, that
allows financial participation or compensation
for sale/rental of “Intellectual Property” of
language.
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IDNS Possible Solutions
 Translations
performed by region or
association of ccTLDs sharing that language
 Translate the names by specific country
claiming the language. (example, Korea)
 Registrars pay a fee for to translation
organization, goes to benefit cc’s involved.
 Licensing similar to music and Intellectual
Property agreements.
 All of this by negotiation.
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New ICANN Structures?
► ALSC
report possibilities
 Directors 6-6-6 Tech, Providers, Users
 ASO-PSO-6, DNSO 6, At-Large + Ncom 6
► Mike
Roberts Proposal
 ccTLD 2 directors, gTLD 2 directors
► Elisabeth
Porteneuve Proposal
 6-6-6 with ccTLD at 6 directors
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The cart and the horse
► Top
down: ICANN decides ccTLD relation:
 ICANN sends down documents to ccTLD
 ICANN creates contract for ccTLD
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Up: ccTLD creates organizations
 ccTLD agrees on documents- sends to ICANN
 ccTLD agrees on general form of contract
 Individual ccTLD may modify as needed
► Relationship
becomes peer-to-peer
► Agreements negotiated by “equals”
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Two Structures: wwTLD.org
► wwTLD
Organization, a legal corporation
► Membership by ccTLD
► Minimum US $ 1.00 “dues”
 For purpose of bi-lateral membership agreement.
 Electorate composed of all members.
► Three
directors from each region + Chairman
 ICANN may add “Middle East” region
► Regional
Associations are “Advisory Board”
► wwTLD.org enters into MoU for SO w/ICANN
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Two Structures: wwTLD Foundation
► wwTLD
Foundation (UN-like model)
15 Directors plus Chairman (or 18 directors)
Electorate composed of sustaining members
NGO status, partnership for grants with UN.
Builds endowment from founders and donors
Operations out of income on endowment and dues
Projects: Outreach, funding by region, Legal, software
development, travel grants,
 ccWhoIs Revenue producing project.
 Other sustainable development projects
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wwTLD Foundation Projects
► Funding
ccTLD secretariat and services
► Legal Advisory committee
 Dealings with ICANN, contracts, licensing
► Revenue
producing development projects
 ccWHOIS
 Registry software and services development
► Grants
 Outreach, including travel grants
 Training and Equipment
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Registry Software Project
► Hire
persons to integrate software and/or
► Master License from commercial companies
modules as required, use for all ccTLD
► Build robust system, offer as a service regionally
to ccTLDs, license at $ 1.00 per name.
► Funds sustain hardware, software , maintenance
► Cc retains control of its own database.
► Cc controls name servers in country or outsourced
to wwTLD organization
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Cc-WHOIS
► Intellectual
property protection companies
wish to monitor ccTLD databases.
► Participating ccTLD input whois data to
central service operated by wwTLD.org
► wwTLD.org charges fee for access to
database.
► Funds are used to sustain operations, and
return surplus to participating ccTLDs.
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Endowing the Foundation
► Five
founders @ US $ 1 million.
► Five founders @ US $ 500,000.
 Funds could be outright endowment, OR- Funds
could be placed on deposit with interest to the
foundation and principal returned to the donor
after 5 years.
► Endowments
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of US $ 10K, 25K, 50K, 100k
Commercial sponsors @ US $ 10K-50K
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Foundation Operations
► Dues
from sustaining members (donors)
 Bands of US $ 1,000 to $ 100,000
► Income
from Endowment Funds
► Revenue from sustainable development
projects
► Overhead fees for administrating grants
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wwTLD and The UN
► UNESCO
interested in chartering us as NGO
► Provides true international credibility
► Enables funding partnerships on projects
► wwTLD determines projects, provides
delivery and reports on outcomes.
► The ccTLD manager is logical contact for
Internet development in-country.
 Technical and political (LDRP, whois, etc)
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Leverage using in-kind sponsors
► Airlines
for tickets and travel expense
► Telecoms for long distancee expense
► Equipment manufacturers for training labs
 Packaging “road show” labs:
 Asia Institute of Technology
 Other regional centers
► Multinational
corporations for use of aircraft
► Hotel chains for blocks of room-nights.
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Conclusions Part 1
► Many
are unsatisfied with unbalance of power and
money.
► IDNS will be a major source of revenue
 Probably US $ 100 million/year by 2003
 There must be some way to distribute income
► Massive
education is required to get business to
register in-country, or at least use registrar in
country, to retain foreign exchange.
► Developing ccs will not benefit financially or
technically without guidance and a central
organization.
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Conclusions Part 2
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In the absence of law, negotiation rules.
A strong, financial viable organization for ccTLDs is
necessary for negotiation with ICANN and domain name
business interests.
ccTLD must take the initiative, and not wait to see what
ICANN and domain name business interests offer.
ccTLDs must get their fair share of political respect, retain
local sovereignty, and share in revenue from Internet gold
rush domain name business.
We can do it, if we wish to.
This is a good time to start. (ALSC – ICANN reorganization)
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Discussion
► Action
Items?
► Montivideo?
► ALSC report draft is out tomorrow!
► ICANN re-organization by November?
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