Barbara Simons wrote:
>Dear Michael,
>I infer from your note that you approve of my article
>on government surveillance. I'm glad to hear that.
>You may also like the article I've included below,
>a version of which will be appearing in the next issue
>of Communications of the ACM. It was last modified
>at the end of December, so the discussion of etoy.com
>ends there.
I and others (e.g. Michael Froomkin) don't agree with your
assessment, in your article "Trademarking the Net", that ICANN's
Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy "balances the rights of both
sides", though it may be less pernicious than HR3028.
Furthermore, your statement in that article that the UDRP was
"hammered out over years of work and with many diverse parties" is
untrue. The UDRP was written in a few weeks by a small
unrepresentative working group of the DNSO, with virtually no public
input, and was approved by the unelected ICANN Board in closed
session, as is their custom.
But none of that has anything to do with my original question:
If you believe what you wrote in your article "Building Big
Brother", then why do you support the secret organization ICANN,
which has been put into place by the USG in part to give the U.S.
intelligence
community greater control over the Internet?
Are you, despite what you say in "Building Big Brother", in favor of
allowing the Internet to be used for covert surveillance, which is
one of tenets of the DOC's ICANN formation?
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