This issues raised by Ronda are right on target.
ICANN is presuming to become a government
without any public vote mandating its power grab.
Government without the consent of the governed
in illegitimate, and it violates our natural rights.
http://www.media-visions.com/icann.htm
Ken Freed, Publisher
Media Visions Webzine
(a journal of global sense)
http://www.media-visions.com
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> From the IFWP list:
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> Jay.
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>>Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 22:23:27 -0500 (EST)
> >From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: questioning significance of filing briefs with ICANN?
> >
> >
> >>Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 17:20:08 -0400
> >>From: "A.M. Rutkowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>Subject: [IFWP] Internet Rights Coalition Press Release
> >
> >>INTERNET RIGHTS COALITION FILES LEGAL BRIEF WITH ICANN
> >>ON GOVERNMENT SOVEREIGNTY CLAIMS TO DOMAIN NAMES,
> >>REQUESTS OPEN PROCESS
> >
> >(...)
> >
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>>><http://www.wia.org/icann/irc_cover-letter.htm>http://www.wia.org/icann/irc_co
>ver-letter.htm
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>>><http://www.wia.org/icann/irc_gac_brief.htm>http://www.wia.org/icann/irc_gac_b
>rief.htm
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> >Can you explain about why this brief in being filed with
> >ICANN?
> >
> >I am interested in how entities other than government entities
> >become those with whom someone might file a legal brief?
> >
> >Would you file a legal brief with other US nonprofit entities?
> >
> >I thought that nonprofit entities were corporations of a form,
> >not that they were legal bodies that governed or were endowed
> >with government powers.
> >
> >However the filing a brief with a nonprofit entity seems to
> >give the impression that it is endowed with the powers of
> >a government. Do you feel it is?
> >
> >Is there some reason the brief wasn't filed with the US government?
> >
> >Under any conditions ICANN is only an entity that is supposed to
> >be a design and test contract with the U.S. government. So I don't
> >understand the brief going to ICANN and expecting ICANN to make
> >decisions, especially where the Government Advisory Council,
> >(GAC) which is the subject of the brief, has to do with government.
> >
> >The US government set up the GAC and it would seem that
> >questions concerning the nature of the GAC have to do with
> >the US government activity involving it.
> >
> >I wondered about the rationale behind filing a legal brief
> >with ICANN? What do you see ICANN as that you treat them
> >in a way that government's are treated?
> >
> >Are they a government entity in your mind?
> >
> >Thanks for any clarification on this.
> >
> >Ronda
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >
> > Netizens: On the History and Impact
> > of Usenet and the Internet
> >
><http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook>http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook
> > also in print edition ISBN 0-8186-7706-6
>
>
> Respectfully,
> Jay Fenello, New Media Relations ------------------------------------
><http://www.fenello.com/>http://www.fenello.com 770-392-9480
