I promised further word on the identity of the author of the paper on which I based the long introduction to my even longer report on ICANN. The author is Professor Milton Mueller of School of Information Studies of Syracuse University. Milton's paper analyzes ICANN as, at least in part, the product of ISOC alliance building. He has given me permission to name him as the author. Milton intends that the paper be published in an academic journal and therefore has asked me not to give out the URL which is not publicly visible from his web site. Nevertheless those of us who have been trying to figure out how ICANN came to be owe him a debt of gratitude. In the meantime watch carefully the continued so called discussion between Network Solutions and the Commerce Department and ICANN which on Friday resulted in yet another discussion. Network Solutions, if it had any nerve, could stop ICANN dead in its tracks by refusing to sign the registrar accreditation requirements. I am still not absolutely sure which way the wind is blowing but I am seeing signs that tend to confirm the assertions of Andy Pincus that Network Solutions is going sign a compromise with ICANN and DoC, one that will be good for its bottom line but bad for the Internet. Face it. ICANN is not about bringing competition to DNS. It is about setting up its own monopoly over DNS to control it and, through its control, to control content on the Internet as well. So do not be surprised if the next bait and switch on the part of ICANN is a deal that keeps NSI in business while NSI starts paying ICANN's bills at a dollar a name per year. I don't believe Jim Rutt would willingly sell out the Internet to ICANN. However the fact that he made promises in Rutt Report #1 at the end of June and has not done a damned thing about keeping them is drawing well deserved condemnation down upon him. If he meant what he said in June and has done nothing to deliver, then I must assume that the NSI Board has over ruled him and is preventing him from engineering a solution that is good for the Internet as well as for NSI. If this is the case he should say so and RESIGN. If somehow this is not the case, he owe's us Rutt Report #2. And fast. **************************************************************** 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) ICANN: The Internet's Oversight Board - [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW - Incompetence or Duplicity? ICANN and it Allies' Stealth Agenda http://cookreport.com/isoccontrol.shtml ****************************************************************
