[ga] we are the owners

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>]

Kent,
I am afraid you have missed something here. We learned a long ago in France
with the Minitel (and the Internet makes it obvious now to every one): @large
are *both* the users and the producers. They make the media and a stable 
content.
They are both the supply and the demand. In a market driven society they 
have the
leadership.

What you call "industry" is a changing complex set of industrial, 
financial, legal
entities and interests which care about the medium. In a very technology 
oriented
environment they allow the today system to operate. Usual images are the road
and the traffic+transport, telecommunications and information+documentation.
They are neither the supply nor the demand, they are the shop.

Initial bylaws were not perfect, and I do not want to know if it was by wisdom
or by luck, but they limited the interim Directors to one year and they 
gave the
the market an owneship balanced by the control of what you call the 
"industry".
They made both of us right: you could say they were industry self-regulated
with inputs from the users, or user self-regulated with the input of the 
industry.

In delaying and blocking that mechanism the "industry" as created a supsicious
unbalance and endangers the stability of the network. To the point the ICANN
may not survive the post "gTLD+Squattering Fours" investigations to come.
That would be a disaster.
Jefsey

At 21:54 07/11/00, you wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 06:16:39PM +0100, Jefsey Morfin wrote:
> > At 13:47 07/11/00, you wrote:
> > >Marc,
> > >We can play that we are the owners, but it will be a waste of time.
> >
> > Alf, the problem is we *are* the co-owners. The initial by laws have been
> > tailored for a progressive transfer of the ownership from the USG to the
> > @large, ie the users.
>
>No, they have not.  The initial bylaws are tailored for self-regulation
>of an industry, with user input.
>
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>Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
>kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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