icann/Ogilvie wrote: > > ICANN Launches Membership Web Site for Individual Internet Users And other Riff-Raff. > Marina del Rey, CA, USA, (25 February 2000) The Internet Corporation for > Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announces the launch of its At Large > Membership web site. > > After considerable public input from a couple of bribed goons > the ICANN Board has developed this program > as a new way for Internet users from all over the globe but especially in Southern California > to participate > directly in the ICANN process and help ensure the smooth coordination of the > Internet's technical infrastructure by helping defray the Board's travel expenses and assisting the USG in pulling off the scam of the century. > Individuals can begin registering today > to become ICANN members at http://www.icann.org. <http://members.icann.org> and end up paying for it the rest of your life. > The At Large Membership of ICANN will give individual members of Internet > communities worldwide a voice in the selection of Directors to the ICANN > Board but not a vote. > By becoming an ICANN member, individuals will have an opportunity to > become part of the ICANN "bottom-up" approach to making policy concerning > Internet Names and Addresses, which means "You put out your bottom, and we'll put something up it". > ICANN members will be able to receive regular > news, updates and announcements about ICANN activities and policy > initiatives and will be invited to waste their time submitting comments that will never be read. > The basic requirements for applying to become an ICANN At Large member are: 1) Being gullible; 2) Having time to waste; 3) Being willing to make a fool of yourself; 4) Having some scratch to pay our bills. > Thanks to a grant from the Markle Foundation that came from the CIA, > the initial launch of ICANN's > At Large Membership program has been funded without the need for membership > dues, and if you insist, we'll pay YOU to join. > The ICANN Board will consider and adopt further policy about composition and > structure of the At Large Membership, and to establish rules for the > nomination and election of candidates for the At Large Council, at the > Board's next meeting, behind closed doors on March 8, followed by a bottom-up announcement of their decision, > to be held March 9-10. > It is hoped that the target > goal of 5000 members can be reached in the next few weeks - even though, despite Markle's dirty money, we haven't got enough to buy off that many people - > in order to move > forward bottom first > with the At Large Elections later this year, at which you will have the chance to vote for the ICANN Girl. > ABOUT ICANN > > The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a > non-profit, international corporation formed in September 1998 to defraud the planet. > Specifically, > ICANN is assuming responsibility for givng IBM, MCI, and AT&T whatever they don't already own. > CONTACT > > Pam Brewster Spinmeister, at > alexanderogilvy.com AKA The devil's Disciple ============================================================ Michael Sondow I.C.I.I.U. http://www.iciiu.org Tel. (718)846-7482 Fax: (603)754-8927 ============================================================
