OK Sam, maybe the reason I feel your arguments are well presented is because I have been reading too much economics?

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From: "Sam Lanfranco" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, 31 March, 2015 3:56:07 PM GMT +00:00 Casablanca / Monrovia
Subject: Re: [Info] IPC Letter to ICANN regarding .SUCKS


Milton, 

When the municipal government in (say) Syracuse creates/recognizes "air rights" over a downtown building, and those become marketable and the next property buys them to build a tall building next door, they are a product. From the vantage point of a trained economist, I don't see how the notion of product will not be brought to bear here. There are too many legal issues and externalities involved for that to not happen. 

As for ICANN, let the process unfold and in a decade, or less, after some case law and interventions at various levels of governance, we can revisit your question. 
I am happy to stand or fall based on the evidence as it rolls out, or or doesn't. 

Sam 

On 31/03/2015 10:06 AM, Milton L Mueller wrote: 











From: Sam Lanfranco [ mailto:[log in to unmask] ] 

I purposefully used "product" since the mantra within ICANN is that being a " regulator and coordinator of the global DNS " means that it is not engaged in product production. 



And you think it is engaged in product production? What is its product, pray tell?