At 05:26 PM 1/12/99 -0800, Greg Skinner wrote: >"Richard J. Sexton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Esther Dysan was the first person to explain who contacted her >>in a teleconferance with ORSC. She said she was apprached >>by Ira and Roger Cochetti of IBM. > >My fault. I went back in the archives and checked. Joe Sims and >Larry Landweber were also mentioned. See the "trust building >exercise" thread and some other threads it spun off. Yeah, but that was weeks later. >>From Postel to IAHC to ICANN there has always been >>an "authority" that will decice things, thus relieving >>the community of *having to get along*. As long as they >>all scream their points loudly, the authority will hear >>so they focus on that instead of cooperating with each other. > >>If there was no god (or Jon or Ira) given authority, and >>npbody to impress or blame, the community would have to >>work together, instead, or see no forward movement. > >Since the ICANN is (supposedly) an interim board, shouldn't we >(ie. folks on this list) be doing that anyway? So, what would all of >you do if there was no ICANN? More specificially, what if the USG >(and other governments) were to totally step back from the process, >and say "ok, you win -- you get to self-govern. The only stipulation >is that you get no protection from us if laws are broken. If you're >hauled into court, it's up to you to provide your own defense, as you >are in a sense creating your own rules." > >What would you do? They won't answer because they're hard at work building something they hope will get recognized as the DNSO. *Thats my point*. -- "We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before." - Barlow. __________________________________________________ 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____________________________________________
