Michael, Ms Kranich and all,
I also would like to know the answers to these questions as well.
Thank you Ms Kranich for your cooperation in advance.
> Dear Ms. Kranich-
>
> According to the FAIR announcement below, you are leading a
> discussion tomorrow evening on "How To Fight the Corporate Takeover
> of the Internet", yet on the agenda there is no mention of ICANN,
> the non-profit corporation that has been set up by IBM, MCI, AT&T,
> and US security groups to control the Internet infrastructure - the
> domain name system and IP address allocation, and which has been
> granted authority to do so by the Dept. of Commerce through an
> undemocratic process.
>
> Nevertheless, I believe you are aware of ICANN, since the American
> Library Association is, if I am not mistaken, one of the
> organizations chosen by the Markle Foundation (a National Security
> Council front) to receive grant monies for helping organize ICANN's
> so-called At-large Membership, which has been stripped of any power
> to either elect ICANN's Board of Directors or influence ICANN's
> policies, in direct violation of the USG's White Paper on the
> Internet.
>
> How do you explain the silence about ICANN at your FAIR meeting
> tomorrow, on the one hand, and on the other your collaboration with
> Markle and ICANN?
>
> Yours,
> Michael Sondow
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>
> FAIR presents:
>
> NET LOSS: A Discussion of Information Equity &
> How To Fight the Corporate Takeover of the Internet
> with
> Nancy Kranich
> Associate dean, New York University Libraries & president,
> American Library
> Association
> &
> Frank Beacham
> Journalist and technology critic
>
> Thursday, February 24, 6:30 PM
> Housing Works Used Book Cafe
> 126 Crosby St., (between Prince and Houston), NYC
> *Free and open to the public*
>
> What do mergers like the proposed AOL/Time Warner deal mean for
> future of
> the internet? What implications does the net's increasing
> commercialization
> have for online diversity and democracy? Join FAIR for a
> discussion with
> two of the country's strongest advocates of freedom of
> information and
> access equity.
>
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