Re: [ga] Re: ICANN before the US Senate...

[Eric Dierker <eric@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It is a funny thing when I teach my citizenship classes here.
We have to go through our constitution and all of our amendments
and the proclamation of emancipation.
But what they all boil down to is a freedom of choice.
Our right to fail is perhaps our greatest right but is written nowhere.

The internet provides us with choices and voices. Unless a country can block 
ecucation of its' people (ie women) or because of gross poverty or 
totalitarian regimes (ie Tibet) then a ccTLD is just a mousetrap and they 
who build the best one sells the most. And those who build lousy ones go out 
of business.

Infrastructure is not just physical plants but a state of mind of a 
community. Our Navajos in Northern Arizona communicate just fine by 
generally only talking face to face. 
Kicking out a ccTLD manager is strictly an act of governance. How the 
government is run is a whole different matter.
Eric

> On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 04:08:09 +0800, Jim Ayson <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
>>Interesting discussion. What if members of the local Internet community
>> believes the existing ccTLD manager is not doing a good job - and the
>>local  government doesn't give a hoot about Internet issues? Where does
>>the  community go to air its grievances?
> 
> In some countries like .nz the local internet community controls the
> ccTLD Manager as it is an open to anyone (for small fee) society, and
> in fact has on one occasion exercised their ability to change the
> management of the ccTLD manager as they were not happy with the job
> being done.
> 
>>Also in the case of the number of individuals who were appointed by
>>Postel  to run ccTLDs (and there are still a number of them), what
>>happens if one  of them gets hit by a bus? Who decides who the new
>>ccTLD manager is?
> 
> Probably who-ever the Government nominates to ICANN/IANA.
> 
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