RE: [ga] Re: ICANN as a Governing Body

[Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org>]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, at 22:38 [=GMT+0200], Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:

> At 12:02 29/03/2001 -0800, Roeland Meyer wrote:
> >I might submit that the ORSC has proven themselves much better at that game.
> >One of the first steps is to acknowlege, without reservation, that an
> >outside world exists. The failure of the ICANN, to take this crucial step,
> >is a large part of what presented new.net with their market opportunity. Had
> >ICANN incorporated ORSC principles, as they agreed to in 1998, new.net might
> >not even exist. The systematic disenfranchisement, of those working in the
> >other root-zones, is a large part of the problem. It presented the
> >market-gap that new.net is moving to fill.
> 
> OTOH, one could argue that ICANN has been successful in gathering the 
> interest, and sometimes even the support (albeit never warm, and with much 
> argument and maneuvring), of the world's governments, Internet service 
> provicers, Internet commercial organizations and even some Internet users - 
> something ORSC has spectacularly failed to do.

Why? Because people are more easily lured by those who hold the
strings, and print the money that is accepted worldwide? You are not
suggesting it is really a matter of bottom-up consenses, are you? 

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marc@pan.bijt.net

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