Esther is of course absolutely right. But Esther is ICANN has no wish to
extend the bounds of its authority outside of the IANA duties why are we
seeing the ICANN by laws written by sims in such a fashion as to allow the
bnoard to establish new supporting organizations?
>I think the notion of any worldwide body regulating spam or porn or content,
>which should be regulated within commmunities, is scary. These are not
>issues that need to be decided on a worldwide basis.
>
>Esther
>
>At 03:46 AM 12/04/99 -0400, Jay Fenello wrote:
>>
>>
>>FYI:
>>
>>
>>>Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 13:27:00 -0400
>>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>From: Jay Fenello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>Subject: Re: [IFWP] COMMENTS ON M.A.C. RECOMMENDATIONS of MARCH 18
>>>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>
>>>
>>>At 05:08 AM 4/11/99 , Ellen Rony wrote:
>>>>IMHO, a membership that is all-inclusive moves ICANN closer to center stage
>>>>as a governance body -- a thought which makes me shudder. While we know
>>>>that ICANN was established *solely* as an administrative body for the DNS,
>>>>I can imagine that a universal, no-barrier membership body may have
>>>>different assumptions or expectations of ICANN's corporate role -- turning
>>>>to it for complaints about spam and porn and copyright infringement, none
>>>>of which are issues for ICANN. ,
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi Ellen,
>>>
>>>ICANN has *always* been about Internet Governance.
>>>
>>>Even while the White Paper and Ira Magaziner were
>>>talking about the "administrative management of
>>>coordinated technical functions for the Internet,"
>>>Larry Irving and Ira Magaziner were talking about
>>>the establishment of Internet Governance! (It
>>>just depended on the audience ;-)
>>>
>>>ICANN is already taking far reaching positions on
>>>Intellectual Property ownership and rights, and it's
>>>only a matter of time before they tackle issues like
>>>spam, porn, etc.
>>>
>>>We'd all be better off if we just accept this
>>>fact, and respond accordingly.
>>>
>>>
>>>Respectfully,
>>>
>>>Jay Fenello
>>>President, Iperdome, Inc.
>>>404-943-0524 http://www.iperdome.com
>>>
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>>
>
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