US gov't official: >"ICANN has to work. Failure is not an option. If it doesn't work at first, >we'll keep revisiting it to make it work. The stability of the Internet is too >important," said a senior Commerce Department official overseeing the ICANN >process. sexton: Last time I checked, the governments didn't control the routers and nameservers. I'm beginning think it should hurry up and implode so we can be free of the meddling. Cook; what legal enforcement power does Icann have or can it acquire if NTIA gives it the US's blessing? potential control over the official root seems to be the stickiest. but if ICANN does something with the root that someonbe doesn't like, if there any reason that that person can't take ICANN to court? *************************************************************************** The COOK Report on Internet What Happened to the White Paper? 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA ICANN a Sham. (updated 10/25/98) See (609) 882-2572 (phone & fax) http://www.cookreport.com/whorules.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index to 6 years of COOK Report, how to subscribe, exec summaries, special reports, gloss at http://www.cookreport.com *************************************************************************** __________________________________________________ To receive the digest version instead, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To SUBSCRIBE forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNSUBSCRIBE, forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Problems/suggestions regarding this list? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___END____________________________________________
