Gordon Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Milton Mueller wrote
>ICANN is not a government and neither is
>the DNSO. If it tries to become one, it will detroy itself and corrupt the
>internet.
>COOK: agreed.
The problem is that the names and numbers and root server system
are very lucrative and power giving resources when in private hands
but they should be in public hands as cooperative resources.
It isn't that they can be owned, controlled and administered by
some private entity without that private entity recognizing the great
wealth and power they have in their hands.
>But milton, do you really believe that esther and mike and the shadowy
>figures behind them have no intention of becoming a governmment?
>if they were only going to administer numbers, names and porty assignments
>from the point of view of benevolent neutrality, why would they have
>engaged in their arrrogant sleight of hand behaviour of the past six months?
How can those who are making a power grab for control over the
essential functions of the Internet act otherwise?
This is probably the biggest giveaway by the U.S. govt in history,
in terms of power, potential wealth, control over the Internet, etc.
How would you expect those grabbing for it to act?
The problem is with the fact that the U.S. govt is privatizing this
-- that these are cooperative public resources and they have
no authority to do this givaway, and that this givaway is already
having very harmful effects on the Internet community which will
only get much worse.
Clearly those who think they can make this killing aren't going to
act in any upright ways.
Ronda
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