Bill and all,
Good points here Bill, I couldn't agree more with your assesment.
Bill Lovell wrote:
> At 06:25 PM 1/21/99 -0400, you wrote:
> * * *
> >** 1/19/99:
> >"ICANN is not a governance institution,
> >but a narrowly focused technical body charged with certain policymaking
> >and coordination tasks. * * *
> >
> >kerry
> >
> Hidden in the above is the quote I retained, and I wouldn't even begin to try
> to track back through to discover who wrote it. In any event, there's a slip
> 'twixt the cup and the lip here. The way this US government works, there
> are legislative policy issues and administrative paper-pushing issues. The
> Congress is not authorized to delegate its fundamental policy-making role
> to any administrative agency. "Policy" in the sense of "we'll use this code,
> nobody gets to do thus and so 'cause it will screw up the computers, we'll
> charge $X for whatever, . . . " are technical issues that can be delegated to
> an administrative body. Policies that impinge significantly on the manner
> in which existing legislation (i.e., the Lanham Act) functions involve
> legislative
> decisions that are not delegable to an administrative agency. As someone
> in this august group quite wisely suggested a while back, "can you imagine
> what would have happened if they had first established the FCC and then the
> (whatever Communications Act it was)?" Here we have not just one but a
> plethora of alphabet-soup type bureaucracies trying to "write" laws that
> are wrenching about the very entrails of the Lanham Act, under the color
> of law but without the authority of law. Guess I'd better go bone up on the
> Civil Rights Acts. (I might mention that this is not a new thing: the U. S.
> Patent and Trademark Office, particularly in its Trademark hat, very often
> adopts "policies" that are quickly squashed by the Court of Appeals for the
> Federal Circuit, if not by that body's own Board of Appeals -- I have one on
> appeal right now that I expect to win.)
>
> Bill Lovell
>
> Bill Lovell
>
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