Re: [IFWP] Re: Sovereignty in government or People ...

[Greg Skinner]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kerry  Miller)

> When ICANN can be put through the same oversight and *public 
> hearings as FCC, the problem will indeed be settled.

I doubt it.  The FCC has a rather poor track record of regulating
shared public resources in the public interest as of late.  If you
think domain names have caused a lot of controversy, read some of the
debates regarding low power FM, cable (de)regulation, HDTV, etc.

> The problem is, ICANN was deliberately *not set up as a federally
> mandated entity, and the question is, Why?

ICANN is an experiment in Internet self-governance.  If it fails, then
there will most likely be some federally mandated entities created to
do what ICANN is doing.

--gregbo