Greg Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Gordon Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> ISOC is Designing an Internet Society Task Force
>> Since we are informed by ISOC Vienna office staffer Sascha
>> Ignjatovic today that "Dr.Cerf is getting a process [going] which
>> will help develope [the] concept and establish an Internet and
>> Society Task Force, we can imagine that ICANN will find wonderful
>> use for the $1 per domain name tax that it has announced it will
>> establish."
>Just for the record, I think this is a good idea, as it will hopefully
>provide forums to address some concerns that don't, or can't be
>addressed in other forums. However, I hope that they make this forum
>like the IETF, and allow anyone to participate, rather than asking for
>membership donations first.
>--gregbo
Greg I agree that there is a need for social issues to be
discussed in a forum. Especially social issues about
the Internet and its present and future development.
But the Internet Society, under the kind of political pressure
it functions under, focuses on commercial issue, and the
social issues are ignored or converted to mean how can
we spread commercial interests agenda.
So it is hard to understand how anything constructive or
directed toward spreading the discussion of social issues
can come out of the plans of those who have directed the
Internet society into the narrow commercial agenda focus
that it current representes.
Ronda
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Netizens: On the History and Impact
of Usenet and the Internet
http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/
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