Joop,
I am writing a story for Monday's paper about ICANN, Network Solutions, etc. How I can
reach you?
Jeri Clausing
New York Times
410-747-8077
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Date: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 5:52 AM
Subject: [IFWP] ICANN stepped on Asian toes
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>I belatedly saw how upset Pindar Wong was with ICANN lack of diplomacy and
>arrogance in Singapore.
>http://asia.internet.com/1999/3/3001-icann.html
>
>Thanks to Pindar, who had been a wonderful host, all delegates in Singapore
>had free connectivity for a week in their hotels, plus a whole bank of
>connected linux machines at the conference site and lunches "on the house".
>In Berlin, a hotelier was our host. All we got was a totally understaffed
>luxury hotel, with a "business center" consisting of one unconnected machine.
>In Berlin, the arrogance was in the final communiquee, that boldly
>threatened to change the bylaws and pointedly ignored the application for
>recognition of the self-constituted Individual Domain name owners.
>
>I wonder who is going to be insulted in Santiago. The locals are going to
>be sensitive about a fly-in, fly-out circus that only pretends to be
>geographically diverse by having the same people meet in geographically
>diverse places.
>
>--Joop Teernstra LL.M.--
>the Cyberspace Association,
>the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
>http://www.democracy.org.nz/idno/
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