While News.com, ZiffDavis, and Rueters continue their blackout on ICANN, a few media outlets are finally starting to report the *untold* story. Here's the latest from Business Week. Excerpts from: http://www.businessweek.com/1999/99_36/b3645101.htm >What's in a Name.com? Plenty >A brawl over Net names could threaten Web self-government > > By Mike France in New York > >It seemed like an inspired idea at the time. Recognizing that the >Internet moves too quickly to be regulated by government, the White House >last year decided to let Web users try to govern themselves. In June, >1998, it proposed creating a series of nonprofit corporations, run by >Netizens, to manage vexing issues such as privacy, fraud prevention, and >intellectual property protection. > >But after less than a year, the White House's bold experiment in Internet >governance is in jeopardy. ICANN is going broke and faces accusations of >mismanagement by everybody from Ralph Nader to House Commerce Committee >Chairman Thomas J. Bliley, Jr. (R-Va.), who sponsored a hearing entitled >''Is ICANN Out of Control?'' on July 22. > >If ICANN survives the >crisis, many people believe that it has the potential to wield vast power >over the Internet. > >''After all the talk over the past few years about how difficult it will >be to regulate conduct on the Internet,'' says David Post, a cyberlaw >specialist at Temple University School of Law, ''the domain name system >looks like the Holy Grail, the one place where enforceable Internet >policy can be promulgated without any of the messy enforcement'' problems. Respectfully, Jay Fenello President, Iperdome, Inc.� 770-392-9480 ----------------------------------------------- What's your .per(sm)? http://www.iperdome.com "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident." (Arthur Schopenhauer)
