Tony rutkowski is far better equipped than i to answer questions about NTIA
tony?
>Ronda Hauben wrote:
>
> >>I came across a description of the Office of Telecommunications
> >>Policy set up in the White House during Nixon's Presidency.
> >>
> >>The office was to centralize power over telecommunications in
> >>the hands of the President. The counsel was from a lawfirm
> >>Jones, Day, Cockley and Reavis.
> >>
> >>(Now the Jones Day lawfirm has a different is called Jones
> >>Day Reavis and Pogue so the relation isn't exactly clear, but
> >>it seems like they are probably related.)
>
>Same firm. It is interesting to see that they've been involved in
>this for so long. Maybe Jones Day is really the U. S. Governments
>private branch.
>
> >>A little booklet that I found about the Office of Telecommunications
> >>Policy (OTP) put out by the Network Project at Columbia U in 1973
> >>said that this office would become "the most powerful voice in the
> >>formulation of national commuications policy." (pg 3)
> >>
> >>The booklet mentions a White House report prepared by Peter
> >>Flanigan, the laison to the corporate community and his
> >>assistant Clay T. Whitehead. And it described the duties
> >>of the office to include national telecommunications policies
> >>and "U.S. participation in international telecommunications
> >>activities."
> >>
> >>It was also to develop executive branch policy on telecommunications,
> >>including regulatory policies.
> >>
> >>I wonder if anyone knows if the NTIA has now taken on these
> >>powers?
>
>There is no doubt a line connecting the two projects. Perhaps Gordon
>Cook can connect the dots.
>
> >>
> >>I remember at Geneva last year listening to the lawyer from
> >>Jones and Day saying that all power of ICANN, according
> >>to the bylaws, would reside in the board, and that the councils
> >>would be under the board.
> >>
> >>The point of all this is that it seems that it is somehow U.S.
> >>government policy to create this so-called private corporation
> >>to have centralized in it all the power that result from
> >>the ownership and control of the essential functions of the Internet.
>
>Yes. It is evidently their plan.
>
> >>It seems it is more likely a situation where it is executive branch
> >>policy (U.S. govt policy) to be setting up ICANN and not to allow
> >>the anti-trust division to investigate.
>
>Precisely.
>
> >>The U.S. Code prohibited agencies established by Executive order
> >>from spending governmental monies without explicit congressional
> >>authorization.
>
>The U. S. Constitution prohibits the executive branch from
>regulating commerce without legislation.
>
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>Michael Sondow ICIIU
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