At 01:10 AM 1/6/99 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Is the meeting open to anyone who comes, or is there a need to >let someone know if one plans to attend? The workshop is open to all. We have a registration/comment form at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rcs/sign-up.html so we know how many people to expect. Comments will go into the planning for and consideration at the workshop. This will be more of a workshop than a conference -- the hope is to get lots of ideas out on the table in a framework for analysis. The questions of "how is Internet membership different?" and "how is ICANN like existing membership organizations?" will be on the table simultaneously because we hope to get guidance from both sides. >It seems especially important that there be some presentation >and discussion of the Internet and its unique nature. > >Do you plan any such discussion? > >I will have a paper by then that I could contribute. Please do. Your paper will be a good counterpoint to discussions of existing organizations, and will help us to focus on ICANN's unique task. We don't want to overlook similarities by focusing on differences, or vice versa. >>The workshop will feature discussion of membership structures for existing >>organizations that have confronted aspects of the membership >>issues ICANN is facing. It will also feature moderated Socratic panel >>discussions. > >But the Internet is *not* an existing organization but a unique >new medium of worldwide communication. > >That is why it seems especially important to have discussion >of the unique nature of the Internet to determine whether >the membership structures you will be considering are appropriate >for this unique new medium. > >The Federal District Court in the CDA case (and in a decision >affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court) said that one needed >to consider the unique nature of this new medium before being >able to determine what was appropriate for it. >Is there any way to contribute to how you will frame the >questions and program or has that already been determined? We will be framing and refining issues through the questions we'll be sending out a few times each week. Your answers to those will help to shape the questions we consider at the Jan. 23 workshop. --Wendy Seltzer Wendy Seltzer, Harvard Law School, (617) 868-2611 [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wendy.seltzer.org/ [&] http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html __________________________________________________ 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____________________________________________
