Greg Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I don't have any problems with the idea of a self-governing Internet.
>If some people could have been found to campaign for office, I would
>have just voted for the ones whose platforms I felt were reasonable.
>However, the USG decided not to set things up that way. Unforunately
>for us. But I find no fault in companies donating money to get a
>non-profit effort going. In some circles, this is considered a sign
>of community spirit, not just taking from the community but giving
>back.
But ICANN isn't some nice little community non profit charity.
It is the big boys (whoever they be) acting behind the scenes
to grab the crucial points of control of the Internet.
To grab the ownership and policy and administration and wealth
etc that comes from the control over the key points of control
not only of scaling the Internet but also of the ability of
anyone to communicate via it.
So to talk about self-governing when no one is allowed to know
who behind the scenes is grabbing is what Harold Sackman in 1970
warned would happen. He said that the notion of the promise
that the future network (it didn't yet exist when he was writing)
holds for people would blind them to the fact that there will
be powerful players who will who understand the power that it will give
them and will act to grab that power.
>--gregbo
Ronda
