Re: [IFWP] Key quotes and ideas from ICANN membership roundtable

[Mark Measday]

OK, by whom, over what, what shall be the regulations, and what processes?  If
they are not those of an international treaty organisation under international
law, or the private 'self-regulation' of ICANN under largely US domestic
oversight, what should they be?

Karl Auerbach wrote:

> > ....  The
> > fundamental complexity in this situation stems from the fact that the
> > Internet is largely owned by private interests.  To be concrete, Old
> > Harry doesn't have any right to tell me how to run my computers
>
> The airplanes and ships of the world are largely owned by private
> interests. Yet there are very strong regulations that say exactly how they
> shall be flown or sailed.
>
> Regulation of the Internet is both legitimate and proper.  The question is
> by whom, over what, what the regulations shall be, and what processes are
> used to apply them.
>
>                 --karl--