Re: [ga] NTIA "Request for Information" on the IANA Functions
At 18:07 24/02/2006, Joop Teernstra wrote: Description THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY They may respond. There are others. I would be surprised Google in a way or another would miss the opportunity. I can't quite understand how this list meets this extraordinary development with such silence. This list is mainly manned by US citizens or by people purely interested in domain names issues. Domain names could survive this announcement and ICANN. It was announced by the NTIA a few months ago and voted by the Congress. Privatising the Internet in selling it to an American industry Consortium or to an American Corporation is to protect it. There is a time when you are not sure that what you do is the proper thing to do. Then you shut your mouth. ICANN feigns to think it is standard procedure. What do you want all these idealists, explaining that their Internet was democracy for all the planet, do when their own Govs sells it to merchants? But probably the best reason of the silence is ... who cares? ICANN is only here to try get funded. The root is actually of no real use. A fossile institution. Time has come to get professionnal and serious about the digital ecosystem multilingual communications. There should be an important meeting about this in Geneva 9-11 May. But ITU and UNESCO do not please them. After having given the Internet to the merchants in refusing to cooperate with them, they are going to give the MGN (Multilingual Global NGN) to the Governements in hating them. Great! jfc
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