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

[Don Brown <donbrown_l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joop,

I can't state it more simply, but I do not desire to offend you - You
just do not understand.

The Internet was born out of a U.S. defense initiative. Don't hold
your breath for the Congress, Senate, Executive or Judicial branch of
the U.S. government to donate it to to the world. It's not going to
happen. That's the reality of it.

Besides, why should they - what margin is in it for them?  Making
non-US citizens pleased is not on their agenda.

With that said, you can be instrumental in making a positive change.
We all know that ICANN is dysfunctional and fully controlled by the
insider cliche.  We can all write to members of Congress and to
Senators to show our disdain.  The number of similar letters from U.S.
and non-U.S. citizens should get some attention.

That is our shot -- to make things right.  I don't know of any better
way to slay the dragon, do you?

Thanks,


Saturday, October 11, 2003, 7:02:30 PM, Joop Teernstra <terastra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
JT> 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.


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


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

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

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

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

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




JT> -joop-




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