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Re: [ga] Taxation without Representation etc.,
Oh well, one more article along the same subject.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020625/wr_nm/media_internet_icann_dc_1
Asaad
At Tuesday, 25 June 2002, William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info> wrote:
>Tuesday, June 25, 2002, 10:12:30 AM, Sotiris Sotiropoulos wrote:
>
>> All,
>
>> Here's the latest from news.com:
>
>> http://news.com.com/2100-1023-939061.html
>
>> These are the kinds of articles the public interest needs in the
>> mainstream media... my only question: Why the hell haven't the
>> mainstream media people spoken up about ICANN's questionable activities
>> in the past?
>
>I really hate ignorant reporting, especially from those reporting on
>the tech industry.
>
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>EU officials also said they would prefer that the U.S. Department of
>Commerce, the government body that spawned ICANN in 1998, relinquish
>control of the root-server system, a master control database of
>Internet sites that ensures that Web traffic gets to its intended
>destination..
>
>The fear is that in the wrong hands the enormous database could be
>mined to determine all comings and goings on the Internet. Although
>there is no evidence that this has happened, the issue has attracted
>added attention in recent months as law-enforcement officials seek to
>shore up defenses against feared acts of cyberterrorism.
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>
>The root zone doesn't need to be mined, it is public. There is no
>sane reason to not have it public, and that last paragraph is just
>plain ignorance.
>
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>Best regards,
>William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>
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