Re: [ga] VeriSign fends off critics at ICANN confab and ALAC's ligitimacy

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:01 a.m. 12/10/2003, Don Brown wrote:
> Joop,
>
> The Internet was born out of a US defense initiative and its current,
> dysfunctional governance is based in the US, etc. However, the term,
> Internet Community, as I've used it, is all inclusive.


and herein lies the problem or the contradiction. Do you senator's 
secretaries have a way of sorting email input into a file "US citizens and 
residents" and "others"?


If they don't, do you think your senator's constituents would appreciate 
him to pay attention to a flood of input about ICANN from, say,  African, 
Brazilian or Chinese .com  domain name holders?

How are US politico's going to judge what is representative opinion?

We may agree about ICANN, but the US legislature is only a stopgap solution.

Long term, if they do not want to give up Name and Number governance to a 
UN bureaucracy, the internet users worldwide have to create their own 
unique form of representative legislature.

This uphill work has started with the icannatlarge.  It may take 5 years or 
more to get it recognized and respected.




-joop-