>Formed in January, the GBDe includes more than 100 companies from all corners
>of the globe. Along with Bertelsmann's Thomas Middelhoff, Time Warner Chief
>Executive Gerald Levin and Fujitsu Ltd's Michio Naruto also serve as
>co-chairman, providing representation at the top from Europe, the U.S. and
>Japan.
Hi Dave,
Is this the same GBDe:
1) with the somewhat minimalist "Comit� de Pilotage"
cross-section at http://www.gbd.org/conference/participants-e.html
and rather vague existence and process at
http://www.gbd.org/gbde.html, or
2) with the conference paper on Consumer Confidence (that's
inexplicably not on their website), that promotes ICANN, stating:
Governments could play a role in creating
awareness of the new global body responsible
for the assignment of domain names, the
Internet Corporation for the Assignment [sic]
of Names and Numbers, ICANN.
The statement itself is misleading, since ICANN is
responsible for coordinating the assignment only,
not for the assignment itself, and only at the root
zone level. This is reflected also in the name
attributed to ICANN.
3) with Monday's conference being conveniently juxtaposed,
collocated, and coordinated with the GIP-European Commission
conference on "Next Generation Internet Policy Workshop"
conveniently bringing together key ICANN-GAC folks. It's
not very public, but see: http://rpcp.mit.edu/itcnet/
(userid: conf password: 99*go) The good news is that
the ITC (which morphed from the Internet Telephony Consortium
to the MIT INTERNET & TELECOMS CONVERGENCE CONSORTIUM so
fast that it forgot to change the home page name :-) )
is a good group of folks. See http://itel.mit.edu/
Please don't mistake my note as paranoia about players -
only a criticism of closed processes among select parties
with self-similar perspectives - that dissuade scrutiny and
alternative views.
--tony
