Re: [ga] politicisation of the internet

[Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Hugh Dierker wrote:

> I would appreciate one smart individual showing me five incidents where 
> the USA Gov. interfered with an ICANN contract and or policy.

You mean things apart from the Sword of Damacleas effect of simply holding 
the authority over ICANN?

A few items immediately leap out:

1. Redelegation of .us
2. Interference with .xxx decision
3. Acceptance of ICANN's breach of faith with the internet community when
   ICANN "reformed" itself and eliminated public participation. (This is
   less interference and more abandonment of the government's side of
   its agreeements.)
4. The recent resolution in Congress to keep ICANN and the control of the
   net under the US umbrella.
5. Is an exercise left to the reader.


		--karl--