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

[Eric Dierker <eric@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If I am not mistaken we average between fifty and sixty Senators abroad 
listening to foreign concerns at any moment.  Yes they do pay attention to 
other cultures concerns.
Eric



> 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-