Re: What industry? Re: [ga] Re: iCANN's protection

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

Marc and all remaining assembly members,

Marc Schneiders wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, at 18:23 [=GMT+0200], Roberto Gaetano wrote:
>
> > I think that this is the real question we are trying to answer (with very
> > little success so far): what is ICANN and what should it be?
> > - is it an (industry-driven) standardisation body?
> > - is it a trade or professional society (self-regulation body)?
> > - is it a (government-driven) regulatory body or agency?
> >
> > IMHO, the confusion is that it is a little bit of all.
> > - as an industry-driven standardisation body it sets standards (criteria),
> > like adoption of UDRP
>
> This I find an eye opener: seeing the UDRP as such. My question would
> then be: Which industry drives ICANN as a standardisation body?

  I think Vint Cerf made that clear in
http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=114&mode=thread&order=0
In other words only the IAB and the IETF....


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