>From: "Jim Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Kevin J. Connolly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
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>Subject: Re: Press Release: Governments Endorse Private SectorInternet
>Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 07:23:29 -0600
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>In my opinion, the ISOC, IANA, IETF, IAHC, ITAG, POC, PAB, CORE, ETC.
>spent so much time trying to educate the various people in governments
>and large corporations, while alienating the very people that could have
>helped them (i.e. common netizens), that the half-educated people in
>those governments and corporations have now become Frankenstein
>monsters that are roaming cyberspace looking for a cause where they
>can be relevant. The common netizens have no ability to stop the monsters.
>The common netizens have learned to move far away from the situation.
>Their best strategy is to move even farther away, because it appears all
>we will now see is a scene filled with the various monsters fighting to the
>death while procreating more along the way. One saving grace in all of this
>is that it provides a certain amount of entertainment value for the vPC
>screens
>of the active worlds, outer worlds, galaxies, universes, etc.
>
>
>Jim Fleming
>Unir Corporation - UNIR and COM worlds @ http://www.activeworlds.com
>vPC + C+@ + IPv8 + 2,048 TLDs...this network solution is simple...
>http://www.ddj.com/articles/index/author/idx10133.htm
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kevin J. Connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Date: Wednesday, March 03, 1999 6:45 AM
>Subject: Re: Press Release: Governments Endorse Private SectorInternet
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>>Dear Readers:
>>
>>Sean Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/02/99 at 02:33PM
>>
>>{snip}
>>
>>>Singapore, March 2, 1999 ) A powerful group of governments today endorsed
>the
>>>establishment of the private-sector model for the technical administration
>of the Internet. In a >critical milestone for the establishment of the new
>market-led technical management structure, >nearly 20 national governments
>from around the world reinforced the need for market-led >solutions to the
>fast-moving evolution of the Internet. Their actions confirmed the
>principles >first put in motion by the United States government in July
>1998.
>>
>>The declaration that the principles underlying ICANN's activity were first
>put in motion by the United States government in July 1998 should finally
>put to rest any thought that this process is in any way related to Jon
>Postel's ur-proposal or Don Heath's revision of it. ICANN is not about the
>enlargement of the generic top level domain space; and while, perhaps, such
>a enlargement may ultimately take place, it is doubtful in the extreme that
>the expansion will be of the type that anyone other than a small number of
>well-heeled cyberbarons envision.
>>
>>Apparently, all of the work that was done by ISOC, PAB, and the IAHC are
>neither worthy of mention nor hopeful of progeny under the ICANN regime.
>This is sad to see.
>>
>>Kevin J. Connolly
>>Attorney and Counselor at Law
>>Robinson Silverman Pearce Aronsohn & Berman, LLP
>>1290 Avenue of the Americas
>>New York, New York 10104
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