I got an answer! My style must be improving. I'd better keep at
it...
Kent Crispin wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 12:51:31AM -0400, Michael Sondow wrote:
>
> > No, huh? Gee, ya coulda fooled me. I thought that's what dat stuff
> > was there for. I mean, what's the point of havin these bylaws and
> > this here membership jazz if they don't mean nothin?
>
> It makes the deluded people who insisted on them happy, I guess.
And it keeps the legal-beagles in knots 'n outta trouble.
> It's wishful thinking on the part of people who want to see
> this as "government".
Ha! Guverment, huh? De only guverment dat dis ICANN scam looks like
is de Cosa Nostra. Oops! Sorry, fellas... No harm meant, okay?
> ICANN has absolutely no power and no significance, except through
> the contracts it may sign with various entities -- in particular,
> the gTLD registrars and registry, the address registries, the root
> server operators, and the protocol organizations.
And that's nuthin? I mean, what's left?
> With the
> exception of the registrar accreditation agreements for the
> .com/.net/.org registrars, all the contracts are in the form of
> MoUs, or joing operating agreements, or CRADAs. The interesting
> thing about these kinds of agreements is that they have almost no
> penalty for dropping out. ICANN has no power to make any of these
> entities do anything at all.
Ya mean no legit power, don't ya? 'Cause power, they got. They can
turn 'em off, leave 'em out inna cold. That's real power, not some
kinda phoney legit power. You guys 'r smart, I gotta hand it to ya.
Never give a sucker an even break.
> In the case of the .com/.net/.org registrars, ICANN did produce a
> contract with some teeth. But those teeth come from the fact that
> the USG signed an agreement with ICANN designating it as "NewCo".
Hold on a sec. Don't it say "for the purposes of Amendment 11 of the
Cooperative Agreement"? That's not exacly designatin 'em as NewCo.
Anyways, this NewCo don't exist, right? There aint no law callin for
no NewCo, far as I know. So even that MoU wit the DOC ain't worth
the paper its written on, am I right? It's all just hooey for the
suckers. Keeps 'em off yer back. And it gives them guys in the DOJ
an excuse for layin off ya, so's they dont run no risks 'n maybe
lose their jobs if Gore gets pissed off. Smart.
> That is, ICANN has precisely the power that the USG delegated to it,
> and no more. ICANN and the USG are obviously working very
> closely together in this matter, ICANN can't do anything that the
> USG doesn't approve of.
Hold it right there, man, 'cause I'm jes dyin ta know one thing. Ya
gotta come clean wit me, ole buddy. I won't tell no one, I swear on
the head of my dead mother (rescuitat in pacem, amen). How'd ya fix
it wit that Burr chic? Come on, give. How'd ya work it? Is Vintie
plonkin her, or what?
