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Re: [weirds] I-D Action: draft-hollenbeck-dnrd-ap-query-00.txt

Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> Tue, 01 May 2012 14:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [weirds] I-D Action: draft-hollenbeck-dnrd-ap-query-00.txt
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On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 09:40:49AM -0400, Michael Young wrote:
> You need a license to operate a Hamm radio or broadcast pretty much anything, this begs the question - should registrants have to apply and receive an ICANN issued ID in order to operate a domain and "broadcast" to the Internet?
> 

Gonna be tough to enforce that given that ICANN has no authority of
any kind over vast chunks of the DNS.  Anyway, the analogy is pretty
weak.  The reason you need a broadcast license is because the spectrum
is a scarce resource, and because what you do inevitably affects
others using the spectrum.  DNS names aren't scarce, even if TLDs are
artificially scarce, and if nobody ever looks you up then nobody even
knows you're there.

Best,

A

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