Gordon and all,
Let' just say she doesn't have her facts right. I smell a rat here by
the name of ogolvie...
Gordon Cook wrote:
> 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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