Re: [ga-icann] Legitimacy Of ICANN?

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

Hello Patrick,

Friday, June 01, 2001, 8:47:27 PM, Patrick Corliss wrote:

> http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/01/05/29/2312213.shtml

> Posted by Cliff on Wednesday May 30, @06:34PM
> from the ignore-the-man-behind-that-curtain dept.

> streak asks: "After listening to a talk given in my Law & Technology class
> by Karl Auerbach, who is on the Board of Directors of ICANN, I started to
> question the legitimacy of it. It seems that ICANN just kinda sprang up out
> of nowhere and stated that they have the right to administer the internet.
> But does anyone hold them accountable?" With the recent news of their fight
> with the IETF, is it finally time to question ICANN's authority?

As with almost half of the stories on slashdot, this one was also not
checked out very well.  There is no fight with the IETF.

This person and the slashdot staff who posted this persons comments as
an article mistook the private actions of one person, Simon Higgs, as
representing the views of the IETF, instead of the views of just the
author.

It was clear from the way it was written that the author didn't even
do the most simple checking into the history of the domain policy
process or into the creation of ICANN.


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