On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 11:47:18AM -0700, Greg Skinner wrote:
>
> How can you be sure of this? I can imagine that there are that many
> applicants from the countries you cited that have sufficient understanding
> of the issues ICANN is supposed to be concerned with.
How can you say that with a straight face?
I can be sure of this, because after N years of participating, it is
clear that a substantial number of the active participants don't really
understand the issues. Nor do they understand the history. Many of the
absolutly critical issues have to do with fairly obscure points of US
law and governance structures that are not familiar to most Americans,
let alone non-Americans; many of the points concerning DNS are not
familiar to most technical people, let alone non-technical people; many
points concerning intellectual property rights are unfamiliar to
everyone except IP lawyers. The fact is that the whole picture is
extremely complicated and obscure.
--
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