Re: [ga] RE: "The reform committee continues to refine its proposals..." [resend]

[Don Brown <donbrown_l@inetconcepts.net>]

Well, the "new ICANN" as you described it, just plain sucks!


Friday, August 16, 2002, 9:00:41 PM, Jim Fleming <JimFleming@ameritech.net> wrote:
JF> ----- Original Message ----- 
JF> From: "Don Brown" <donbrown_l@inetconcepts.net>


>> The original concept was that ICANN was to be a bottoms-up, grass roots
>> driven organization.  We have not seen that, yet.
>> 

JF> That was the ICANN that the U.S. Government and the incumbent Registries "sold" to the TLD
JF> developers with the promise that "in a few months, 5 or 6 of the obvious TLDs would be added
JF> to the legacy roots...". The TLD developers at the time (.BIZ, .WEB, .NEWS, .INC, etc.) believed
JF> the people speaking from the White House. They were duped into thinking that Jon Postel would
JF> make that happen, in a few months. He was then removed. Some claim he died. Then, the world
JF> changed, the military industrial complex went into action. All the promises went out the window.
JF> The CIA then planted people in the process. The incumbent Registries continued to grow. It is
JF> all a matter of the "public record". In summary, the "spooks" made a mess of it. That is how they
JF> control things. They disrupt, distract, and derail. They have unlimited people and funds to do that.

JF> You now will get a new ICANN, which is revenue driven. With the Enron and Worldcom situations,
JF> the world will be doing the accounting with a very sharp pencil. It all begins with how and why these
JF> people and companies were able to obtain these allocations and why some pay each year for them
JF> and why some do not.
JF> http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space

JF> You also have the revenue from SLD sales in all the TLDs. At $1 per domain per year, there should
JF> be enough money to pay the salary of the person tasked with sending the bill, as well as the Board
JF> and Staff to manage that person. That is not rocket science. You can bet that every Senator and
JF> Capital Hill staffer is lining up to get their own TLD, once they get past the 2-year waiting period
JF> now that Clinton is gone. When they were in office, they clearly did not want people to prosper,
JF> while they toiled at government jobs. They are now out of that 2 year window and ready to move into
JF> the "new ICANN".

JF> Jim Fleming
JF> 2002:[IPv4]:000X:03DB:...IPv8 is closer than you think...
JF> http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt






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