On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 10:07:25AM -0700, Mark C. Langston wrote:
>
> On 14 October 1999, Kent Crispin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Jay Fenello in the news:
> >
> >http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/10/circuits/articles/14spin.html
> >
> >Is it relevant that someone is paid by an entity with a major
> >financial stake in the issues?
> >
> >Richard Sexton and Tony Rutkowski have also acknowledged being paid
> >consultants of NSI. All three claim that this has nothing to do with
> >what they say -- that is, that NSI supports them because of what they
> >have a natural inclination to say.
>
>
> Yeah, Kent. Heaven forbid, someone with a major financial stake in
> the issues should participate in forming DNS issues.
As you well know, the issue is deception.
> ..oh, wait, that's
> pretty much every participant in the DNSO, isn't it?
Absolutely not. From my personal knowledge: I don't have any
financial stake. Dave Crocker doesn't. David Maher doesn't. Javier
Sola doesn't. Roberto Gaetano doesn't. Karl Auerbach, I believe,
has no financial stake. None of the ICANN Board, to my knowledge,
has any financial stake in DNS issues. My impression is that *you*
don't have a financial stake....
> Kent, ICANN is nothing *but* monied interests. There's only a handful
> of people with any actual say in the proceedings that don't have
> a financial interest in the outcome.
None of the board has a financial interest in the outcome.
> Those of us who do not stand
> to gain financially and do not currently have any kind of direct
> say in what goes on keep trying to change that, and keep getting
> batted down by the large-money folks.
What do you mean by "direct say"? Tell me how it is, for example,
that MCI has a "direct say". Could you point out to me where MCI
gets to make direct vote on any ICANN policy matter?
Or maybe a big TM interest, like Disney. Could you point out to me
where we see Disney's direct vote on any ICANN policy matter?
It looks to me like *every* entity goes through some number of levels
of representation, and what you are concerned about is number of
levels. Is that true?
--
Kent Crispin "Do good, and you'll be
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lonesome." -- Mark Twain
