Re: [ga] More on Sitefinder suspension

["John Palmer" <jp@xxxxxxxx>]

I'll show you how deliberate it was. Leah filed a complaint with the DoC when ICANN announced that
they were going to assign .BIZ to NeuLevel.  The DoC would not hold any hearings about it and 
basically ignored her.

The day that they added .BIZ to the USG root, the DoC faxed her a letter saying that they 
couldn't do anything - that it was up to ICANN to make the decisions and that they were not
going to hold any fair hearing, etc, etc. 

So, even the government was part of the conspiracy. (Suprise, suprise....).

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Stephane Bortzmeyer" <bortzmeyer@xxxxxx>; "Karl Auerbach" <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ga@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 13:45
Subject: Re: [ga] More on Sitefinder suspension


> comment below
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@xxxxxx>
> To: Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Karl:
> > > 2. I see few republics condemn communities who do have managed to
> > > establish direct democratic systems.  Yet the catholic root
> > > community seems to take every chance to deamonize the even the
> > > concept of competing roots.
> >
> 
> Steph:
> > Any sign of active repression from ICANN? (Besides ICP-3, I mean.)
> >
> 
> Well the bulldozing aside of .biz was a pretty repressive action... we have
> the power to do it, therefore we will do it... regardless of honest people
> already doing honest business with the already established .biz
> 
> We already had .com ... what did we need the virtually identical .biz for...
> the fact that .biz is hardly used by the commercial community (who prefer
> .com) suggests that this confusion over .biz was unnecessary and probably
> deliberate
> 
> In a situation where the dominant DNS is controlled by one state through its
> quango ICANN, and the governance seems to be autocratic, the case for
> competing roots is strengthened
> 
> I believe ICANN acts repressively in all kinds of directions, mainly because
> it refuses to surrender actual power to others... it is in the business of
> representing the interests of a limited set of powerful groups and agencies,
> first among whom is DoC
> 
> This is not contingent with the worldwide public interest which it purports
> to defend
> 
> ICANN is institutionally, by its very reason for existence, incapable of
> surrendering power or supporting a dispersal of powers, which the alternate
> roots imply
> 
> Yrs,
> 
> Richard Henderson
> 
> 
> 
>