Re: [council] TOTALLY INCORRECT Information about CENTR

[Michael Schneider <sastre@anwalt.de>]

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At 19:40 06.10.99 +0100, Dennis Jennings wrote:

 >CENTR Colleagues,
 >
 >A press article in a Swedish journal included the following TOTALLY
 >INCORRECT information about CENTR.

A truely interesting contribution. One never ceases to learn ;-)

For general amusement I can contribute some extracts from an article which 
the German magazine "NetInvestor" (sic!) published a couple of weeks ago on 
the topic of ICANN:

"dominance instead of monopoly ... the golden cow slaughtered.

The monopoly of Network Solutions has been broken ... now other companies 
my also act as registrars of Internet-addresses. ... Core, the Center for 
Organ Recovery & Education, is one of the five chosen few that may 
distribute Domain Names."

It is always wonderful in what detail some journalists do research. Luckily 
the reports are sometimes so evidently incorrect that one mustn't worry 
about the result. Even the Swedish journal already disqualified itself in 
the second sentence:

 >"CENTR proposes the introduction of the TLD .eu in order to promote the
 >interest of Europe. Because the national TLDs are relatively small
 >compared with .com, .net and .org, 33 ccTLDs decided in March 1998 to
 >establish the organisation for lobbying called CENTR.

One should recommend the authors to have a look at the TLD .de, which (at 
least when combined with two or three of the other leading European ccTLDs) 
is not really several orders of magnitude away from .com.

 >We, the CENTR Executive and staff, are trying to find out whether this
 >was just bad/stupid journalism - or whether there is perhaps a more
 >sinister explanation.

The latter I can hardly imagine in view of the quality of the quote.

Best regards,
Michael Schneider

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