Ms. Simons is very plainly muddle headed.
>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?
>
>
>============================================================
>Michael Sondow I.C.I.I.U. http://www.iciiu.org
>Tel. (718)846-7482 Fax: (603)754-8927
>============================================================
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