At 10:01 28/11/98 -0500, Brent Eades wrote:
<lots of stuff I agree with>
I just received a Happy Thanksgiving email from China! :-(
>
>But if this US-centric trend continues unabated, I foresee the Web
>becoming the equivalent of America telelvision: a mass-entertainment
>octopus dominating culture and marketing in nations around the world, at
>the expense of distinctive regional culture and voices. Just the sort of
>intellectual imperialism the Web (at one time) semed poised to do away
>with.
>
The most telling part of the trend is the recent handing over of power over
the root and DNS administration to ICANN, not an international body, as we
might have hoped, but a California based non-profit corporation subject to
US law.
This is the "heart" of the internet and the web.
The only concession that we have had so far is that half of the Directors
will be elected by a yet to be created , international membership.
Joop Teernstra
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.imachination.com
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