When NSI initiates legal action against the department of commerce, the house of cards built by the clinton gore administration on the commerce NTIA foundation will come crashing down. Pincus has been warned that his assertions will not withstand the scrutiny of the discovery process but he goes on making assertions that federal law and administrative procedures cannot support. And joe sims, well, back in the late 1970s joe used to work for the justice department. So Joe becomes the natural attorney for Al Gores operatives to funnel into the act via Vint Cerf and Mike Roberts and the boys at the Internet Society. They will make ICANN into a body that violates anti trust but they will get one of the gov'ts best anti trust flaks to create ICANN in such manner that it will be extremely difficult to pin an anti trust accusation against them. For DNS and the so-called authoritative root is the way to grab control over the Internet a control that ISOC wants to fill its coffers and control that intellectual property interests want to protect their flanks. Control that commerce wants to keep the likes of ATT and IBM happy and to slow down the net enough to make sure that all financial transactions are traceable. Commerce has done enough research to understand exactly what will happen when issues such as the provenance of the database are in court. The data base will be shown to belong to NSI. Commerce knows this and yet it marches forward one must ask why it proceeds with such confidence. NSI has been a pitiful helpless giant these last two weeks. One must wonder why. Wonder who is keeping the muzzle on. It seems highly likely that the answer sits in the person of the NSI Board Chair who testified today. A SAIC mafia DON. One has to wonder whether SAIC is putting the breaks on and refusing to let NSI defend itself in order to curry favor with the feds. 45% control over net solutions is better than 90 percent control, but it is likely still control. One wonders if Esther Dyson realizes how foolish she will appear when the ICANN US Gov't case gets to Court and collapses. **************************************************************** The COOK Report on Internet Index to seven years of the COOK Report 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA http://cookreport.com (609) 882-2572 (phone & fax) The only Good ICANN is a Dead ICANN [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's Behind ICANN and How it Will Impact the Future of the Internet http://cookreport.com/icannregulate.shtml ****************************************************************
