Jim and all,
Excellent point here Jim. I cannot argue with your assesment/logic
in any way. I doubt that any of the ICANN BoD or the DNSO
NC can either.
Jim Dixon wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Esther Dyson wrote:
>
> > Ken, I've already said most of what I have to say, and you can go find it
> > and repeat it as well as I can.
> >
> > I think ICANN is heading in more or less the right direction despite its
> > many imperfections, and I want to help make it better. It is not governing
> > the world, and god forbid *anything* should be put to a global vote. It is
> > trying to organize bottom-up courtesy of the people most concerned with the
> > Net's infrastructure, and draw them in through outreach. It implements its
> > policies through contracts, not by "governing."
>
> George Orwell would appreciate this sort of English.
>
> ICANN is "trying to organize bottom-up". This is why it was imposed on
> the Internet by a small group that has never been clearly identified. No
> broadly based Internet group ever asked for ICANN or has endorsed it.
>
> ICANN is here "courtesy of the people most concerned with the Net's
> infrastructure". The totally naive, those not fluent in this NewSpeak,
> would confuse this group with, for example, the Internet service providers
> who operate most of the Internet infrastructure. The fact that ISPs as
> a group do not endorse ICANN, the fact that ICANN ignores ISPs' input --
> these are irrelevant. Because, after all, ICANN is trying to "draw them
> in through outreach".
>
> Most importantly, the fact that ISPs, like most of the rest of the people
> most concerned with the Internet's infrastructure, have no interest in
> signing contracts that give away control over their assets to ICANN --
> that's totally irrelevant.
>
> The Internet has many legitimate organizations that draw such authority
> as they have from the endorsement of those that they represent. ICANN
> is not one of them.
>
> --
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