Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:41:28 -0800 From: Lauren Weinstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [IP] : VeriSign sues ICANN To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dave,
This falls squarely into the "reap what you sow" category. Many of us (including yourself) have been warning for years that the current Internet "governance" situation vis-a-vis ICANN (and VeriSign) was untenable, but interest in dealing with this has been anything but enthusiastic by either the well-heeled corporate masters of the Internet or by the folks at the Department of Commerce.
Now we're faced with a "Godzilla vs. Mothra" battle, where the Internet -- and its users -- will likely take the brunt of the collateral damage.
VeriSign acts as if the Internet is its personal garden ripe for picking, while ICANN (notwithstanding being on the correct side of the VeriSign "Site Finder" battle so far) is largely responsible for leading us into these kinds of messes in the first place.
It's time to move beyond these two organizations that so many now love to hate. The PFIR document "Overcoming ICANN: Forging Better Paths for the Internet" -- now almost exactly two years old -- proffers one possible path ( http://www.pfir.org/statements/icann ).
If we don't seriously get down to fixing the way the Net is run, "here there be monsters" could well become the permanent slogan of the Internet itself.
--Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 http://www.pfir.org/lauren Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org Co-Founder, Fact Squad - http://www.factsquad.org Co-Founder, URIICA - Union for Representative International Internet Cooperation and Analysis - http://www.uriica.org Moderator, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Meeks, Brock (MSNBCi)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:24:25
> To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: VeriSign sues ICANN
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> Straight from the press release:
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> VeriSign Files Lawsuit Against ICANN
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> MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - February 26, 2004 - VeriSign, Inc. the leading provider of critical infrastructure services for the Internet and telecommunications netwo
> rks, today announced that it has filed a lawsuit in Federal Court in the Central District of California against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names a
> nd Numbers (ICANN).
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> The suit alleges that ICANN overstepped its contractual authority and improperly attempted to regulate VeriSign's business in violation of its charter and it
> s agreements with VeriSign. By straying from its charter and agreement to be a technical coordination body, VeriSign asserts that ICANN has improperly attemp
> ted to become the de facto regulator of the domain name system and in doing so stifled the introduction of new services that benefit Internet users and promo
> te the growth of the Internet.
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> [snip]
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