Re: [ga] we are the owners

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Jefsey and all assembly members,

  ICANN almost from it's conception was a disaster.  It has turned out
that it in not a disaster, but a plague on the stakeholders to the extent of
being potentially ignored, and causing intergovernmental problems as well
that may be with us all for years.

Jefsey Morfin wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >--
> >Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
> >kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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Regards,

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