Ken and all,
Hummmm? Ken, I was certainly not aware that you favored that
particular publication. Interesting insight in respect to yourself.
Thank you so much for sharing that with us! >;) Ohhh, I almost forgot,
this comment of yours, in your twisted form of intelligent sarcasm as
a personal and professional attack... How forgetful of me to not remember
this antic of yours dating back to the gTLD-MoU days, eh Ken?...
I am sure that the Cato Institute will find this most interesting indeed as
well as reveling as well...
Such an interesting sentiment for someone of a self appointed leadership
position with CORE...
Ken Stubbs wrote:
> another dispassionate, un-bias, objective analysis.....
>
> worthy of consideration for a staff reporter position on the christian
> science monitor !!
>
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> Thursday, May 6, 1999
>
> Cato Institute, Washington D.C.
>
> Milton Mueller, David Post, and Beckwith Burr were the panelists at
> a well-attended forum on Internet governance today at the Cato
> Institute in Washington D.C.
> Milton Mueller and David Post began the proceedings with
> well-formulated arguments that what was occurring was indeed the
> creation of an Internet government, and that attempts to ignore or
> hide the fact were impeding a serious approach to it. Beckwith Burr
> added her usual time-worn clich�s about the process being on
> schedule, et cetera, et cetera, and added that "the Internet should
> be run by the people who use the Internet". Strangely, this remark
> was not met by laughter, although it was followed by a prolonged and
> pregnant silence. The man sitting next to the author of these lines
> seemed to be bursting with the compulsion to inquire if Ms. Burr had
> meant to say "by the people who use the Internet and have over
> $100,000 for lawsuits", or "the people who use the Internet and are
> members of ISOC", or "the people who use the Internet and have
> connections in Washington", but the fellow restrained himself,
> albeit with difficulty, and spent the rest of the conference biting
> his lip and staring at his shoe.
> Interventions from the audience in the Q&A period included an apt
> reminder by Don Tellage of Network Solutions, Inc., that the people
> presently conducting the ICANN process had not been elected to do so
> and were chosen by a yet-unknown and dubious process. Michael
> Sondow, of the ICIIU, confronted Becky Burr in his usual ungracious
> way with the contradictoriness of her testimony at the House of
> Representatives hearing on DNS in October, when Ms. Burr had said
> both that "We are not creating a United States Government chartered
> corporation or anything of the sort" and that "We will be entering
> into a contract...fully authorized by the powers of the Secretary of
> Commerce..." Mr. Sondow asked Ms. Burr to clarify, in the light of
> such disingenuous testimony, whether or not, in the event that ICANN
> is sued, the U.S.G. will grant it immunity. She answered in the
> inimitable Burr style that maybe yes, maybe no, only time will tell,
> tra-la-la.
> Interestingly, the conference was attended by some persons not
> habitually seen at these sorts of gatherings. There were present,
> for example, three gentlemen in suits who are identified in the
> roster of attendees only as being from "Washington, D.C.", who never
> spoke, and who had the air of being anxious to leave as soon as
> possible and report back to their superiors, awaiting no doubt in
> some basement office of the CIA. John Hall from the Embassy of
> Australia was there, overseeing his government's hegemony in ICANN's
> Governmental Advisory Committee. Jim Harper from the House Committee
> on the Judiciary was there, possibly to see if these Internet sorts
> were as evil as Mr. Sondow says they are in the posts he incessantly
> copies to the House. Notably present also was C. Lincoln Hoewing (we
> won't hazard a guess as to what the "C" might stand for), identified
> in the roster as pertaining to "Bell Atlantic Government Affairs",
> which we take to mean the telco lobby; Mr. Hoewing, perhaps not
> unexpectedly, did not appear overly in need of liquid refreshment
> when the gathering left the auditorium at 2:00 P.M. to reconvene in
> the foyer, where the Cato had prepared lunch.
> The pastrami sandwiches were excellent.
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