ICANN is the government after all...
who controlls your domain name really? ICANN WAS FORMED IN RESPONSE TO A U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE WHITE PAPER ICANN was created by members of the Internet community in response to a June 1998 White Paper, issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC). As the Internet developed, DNS functions were carried out by a variety of volunteers and US Government contractors. A non-competitive, government-funded system developed. The DOC's White Paper envisaged a "global, consensus, non-profit corporation", to serve as the means by which DNS management could be privatized, enabling an open, competitive system. ICANN IS ENABLING COMPETITION FOR DOMAIN NAME (.COM) REGISTRATIONS To accomplish this, ICANN and the Department of Commerce (DoC) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on November 25, 1998, agreeing to work together to manage the transition from government control to private sector control. The single most visible and important element of DNS management is the registration of domain names (for example, .com, .org and .net). A single historical provider, Network Solutions,(added entry: also a psuedo governmental organization) has for years enjoyed a government-granted monopoly over new domain name registrations and renewals. ICANN has no statutory or other governmental power: its authority is entirely a consequence of voluntary contracts and compliance with its consensus policies by the global Internet community. It has no power to force any individual or entity to do anything; its "authority" is nothing more than the reflection of the willingness of the members of the Internet community to use ICANN as a consensus development vehicle. http://www.icann.org/general/background.htm#8 The government built it and we came. At most levels they still have full control over the net even if people don't really realize this. This goes for data hubs, router hooks, TLD's, ip assigning etc... and translates into TIA which is what they already have but only now it is starting to become public knowledge that they want to do this... what a joke that is! and this one is for you Robert: http://www.icann.org/gnso/issue-reports/whois-privacy-report-13may03.htm Gordon H. www.katzglobal.com Anonymous Hosting(tm) Solutions --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
