>Magaziner and Lessig's comments, as well as Paul Twomey's comments at the
>Berlin GAC forum on the suject of what ICANN's successor would be if it were
>to fail, suggest that few on this list other than Ms. Hauben would consider
>the likely result of such a review to be an improvement.
>
well by god count me among them. I will not fall for toumey's scare
tactics. and the whole point is if gov't try to move in direcvtly there
should be enough notice as top force them to do so openly rather than by
means of the stealth operation mounted here by Dyson, roberts, cerf anmd
isoc. i still have some shred of believe that western political process
have some degree of public accountability if they are done openly and that
accountability is what is missing here.
Icann I pray will be long gone by sept 2000 in part because the brazen
arrogance of becky esther, mike and vint will give NSI no alternative
except to file suit rathjer than put its head in the icann guilotine.
>Jay Fenello wrote:
>>
>> http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/domnam/TWB19980611S0009
>>
>> Magaziner, Lessig Spar Over Domain Name Plan
>> (06/11/98, 2:46 p.m. ET)
>> By Mo Krochmal, TechWeb
>>
>> NEW YORK -- Ira Magaziner, the Clinton administration's point person on
>> technology, said Wednesday the next few months will tell if the
>> U.S. policy
>> of letting the Internet self-regulate will work.
>>
>> Magaziner, who shared a forum with technology pundit Esther Dyson and
>> Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig, said within six months the federal
>> government will know if private initiatives on Internet domain names are
>> working. "If not, then we will have to review it again," he said.
>>
>> Last Friday, the U.S. government released its policy on the regulation of
>> Internet domain names. In the long-awaited white paper, the
>> government said
>> it would let Internet stakeholders establish a non-profit agency and a
>> board of directors to direct registration of top-level domain
>> names such as
>> .com, .net, and .org.
>>
>> But Lessig disagreed, saying the implications of creating a special
>> non-profit agency seems like a substitute for government, but one
>> that does
>> not have to answer to an electorate.
>>
>> "This is bizarre for a democracy," said Lessig. "Why not just carve up the
>> government into private non-profit organizations and be done with it all?
>> We are creating the most significant jurisdiction since the Louisiana
>> purchase, and we are building it outside the review of the Constitution."
>>
>> ================
>>
>> (I'd say it's time to review it again ;-)
>>
>> Respectfully,
>>
>> Jay Fenello
>> President, Iperdome, Inc. 404-943-0524
>> -----------------------------------------------
>> What's your .per(sm)? http://www.iperdome.com
>>
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