there was a time when the assertion that string allocation policies in the
dns are subordinate to trademark registration was viewed as exotic, if not
deranged or at best mildly ignorant.
some community or another, together with some government and some contractor,
and innumerable sundry other actors, transformed the value of the assertion,
or allowed the transformation to occur (but only in ascii).
arin's executive seat is vacant. even if "zoning" is only a territorial
jurisdictional issue, like manditory-to-implement des, and confined to the
us and other odd bits of the world, there doesn't appear to be the capacity
to resist/instruct/co-opt/... the next ira magaziner et alia who wander by.
for professional reasons i'm having to grapple with the awkward bits of http
metadata filtering (copa comes to mind, as does the eu's data act, etc.) in
the presence of ... a regretable pending rfc. the excesses (overspecification)
of the atechnical participants in this policy area are ... non-negligable.
for civic reasons i've had to grapple with the awkward bits of the technical
projection of institutional policies most of this list's participant assume
are inoperative or negligable or ... simply infra dig. the excesses ... etc.
list chatter isn't going to correct don, srinija or bill (copa commissioners,
and possessed of ip-clue), it isn't going to fix "zoning" as a vehicle for
specific access or cost recovery policies, or the subordination of routing
based address allocation policies to content-access based polices.
personally i can wait for the day when protocols and parameters are subject
to data-free atechnical policy examination for necessity and utility -- only
i suspect it has already arrived.
g. stein wrote of oakland, there's no "there" there. i hope we're not really
playing dress-up when we gesture as if there is a "here" here.
cheers,
eric