FYI:
AT WAR FOR THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET
ICANN IGNORES ITS BY-LAWS, SWEEPS OPPONENTS ASIDE, CLAIMS CONTROL OF ALL
DNS AND PREPARES FOR SHOWDOWN WITH NSI UNDER GUISE OF ENDING NSI MONOPOLY
Actions Create Regulatory Body Designed To Make Internet Safe For Content
Control, Legacy Technology and Fortune 500 E-Commerce,
Part One: The Challenge
The growth of the commercial Internet over the past eight years has shaken
large power bases to their very core because it provides the fertile ground
from which a fountain of innovations have sprung -- innovations have
rendered digital technologies less than a decade old obsolete. TCP/IP is
also poised to transform all telecommunications into packet switched data
networks. In 1999, an upstart company like Level 3 can pay a million
dollars to install infrastructure with a capability which would have cost
AT&T 100 million dollars in 1992 or 1993. Entrepreneurs such as Amazon can
reshape the book selling industry. Niche publishers such as the COOK Report
can be viable without advertising and can therefore be free to report what
they see without the censorship of editors who protect the interests of
their corporate sponsors. Elimination of middlemen has become rampant. If
customers are talking directly to each other, larger control -oriented
companies and control-oriented government bureaucracies face terrifying
futures. Furthermore, the world's commerce is going on line. The Internet
and its associated technologies are challenging globally entrenched forces
of wealth and power. Economic empires are being overturned.
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But the Internet community has created a monster of success. It Internet
threatens to render most of the worlds installed telecommunications
infrastructure obsolete. It threatens the ability of national governments
to control their trans-border information flows and to determine the
conditions under which their citizens will pay taxes. It affronts corporate
elephants by enabling a new generation of self employed mice to do business
globally at a fraction of the cost. It has leapt from success to success
while daring the technology, government and commercial empires it threatens
to do something about it. It has gone up to the old order, slapped it in
the face and dared it to retaliate. And it is now in danger of becoming a
victim of its own success. ICANN is the response of the old order legacy
companies like IBM which realize that they must overturn the independent
platforms of communication and business that the net has given to the rest
of us or be swept away.
ICANN is also the response of the current generation of publishing
companies. These conglomerates, through the agency of the World
Intellectual Property Organization, are reacting to a new paradigm in which
each author, artist and musician becomes his or her own publisher. It is
also the response of the traditional telecommunications companies and
governments touting "industrial policy" (which means government in alliance
with large powerful industries and corporations) through the agency of the
ITU to the current technological and economic developments brought on by
the Internet.
In sum, the Internet has directly challenged the most powerful political
and economic interests in the world. The entrenched powers have come up
with ICANN to protect their own viability under both the ruse of
"protecting the stability of the Internet" and a trumped up need to end the
NSI monopoly.
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See the rest of the story at:
http://www.cookreport.com/icannregulate.shtml
Respectfully,
Jay Fenello
President, Iperdome, Inc.� 404-943-0524
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