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Re: [ga] Casting stones
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 01:13:41AM +0200,
Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org> wrote
a message of 39 lines which said:
> And what's your perspective for the future? Replacing ICANN? By
> what? Direct government oversight over Verisign? How realistic is
> that?
I don't know if it is "realistic" (having a serious chance of being
implemented). But I agree with John Gilmore
<URL:http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/07/02/gilmore/print.html>.
> All this talk about a re-bid, or about working around ICANN,
> ultimately boils down to the suggestion to replace the lobbyist
> battleground called ICANN by the lobbyist battleground called
> Capitol Hill. Same players, different coast. How's that an
> improvement?
For the US citizen, it will allow him/her to invoke various rights
he/she is entitled to (such as the Freedom of Information act). For
the foreigner, it would change nothing (except that it would be
clearer who runs the root).
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