AXES OF CONFLICT
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| central coordination |
unregulated
market
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| top-down rule-making |
bottom-up consensus
building
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| expert management |
democratic management
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| cost recovery |
imposition of
tax
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| insulated from self-identified stakeholders (independent of political pressures or unaccountable?) |
controlled by
self-identified stakeholders (captured by special interests or reflective
of community consensus?)
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| stability |
easy entrance
for competition
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| consumer protection |
market competition
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| technical expertise |
non-technical
considerations
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| decision-makers |
advisors
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| famous mark holders |
non-commercial
domain holders; some trademark holders
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| uniform mandatory dispute procedures |
preference for
rights under local law
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| special treatment for famous marks |
conflict with
other name rights
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| accountable to constituents |
accountable
to special interests
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| open to all Internet users |
address/name
holders only
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| individual members only |
corporation
and organizational members
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| financially self-supporting |
open to anyone
regardless of income
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| online elections |
authenticating
voter identity
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| cost to administer election |
cost of fraudulent
results
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| representational democracy |
protection of
minority interests
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| efficiency of private enterprise |
protection of
governmental procedures
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| rapid response |
layered bureaucracy
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| direct connection to consumer |
intervention
of international treaty
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| attorney-general of California |
international
body
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| paralysis pending litigation |
efficient complaint
process
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| flexibility in decision-making |
answerable to
public
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| insulation from interest group pressure |
marginalization
of minority opinion
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| protection of work in progress |
discovering bad
decisions after the event
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| necessary exemptions from disclosure |
hiding important
information
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| encouragement of uninhibited deliberation on BoD |
knowledge of
BoD opinions
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| TLD explosion |
slow addition
of TLDs
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| content-based |
unrestricted
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| single registry owns TLD |
registries compete
in every TLD
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| new gTLDS |
expanded use
of ccTLDs
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| recognize established interests |
start fresh
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| estimation of rough consensus |
metrics for
measuring consensus
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| alienation of stakeholders |
investment of stakeholders
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| silent majority |
vocal minority
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| rapid implementation of policy |
time for input
from all interested parties
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| business rights |
individual voices
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| trademark interests |
rights of the
individual
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| preventing abusive registrations |
legitimate speculation
on domain names
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| anti-tarnishing |
free speech
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| reverse domain name hijacking |
legitimate protection
of trademark
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| single authoritative root system |
root competition
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