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[ga-icann] ICANN - The world's Internet technical coordinating body?
This is from the technical coordinating body that is responsible for
maintaining the stabiltiy of the Internet.
What it sounds like to me is a petulent child who is cornered and
threatens to do something really stupid in order to get back at the other
kid who has the toy he wanted. He'll deliberately try to break your toy
because he didn't get there first or his mommy wouldn't buy one for him.
Now he becomes the playground bully.
Instead of responding to offers of dialog, ICANN prefers to attempt to
wipe out others at the expense of the users of the Internet. Is this the
body we all want to coordinate the Internet? Do you trust ICANN? Can
anyone trust ICANN with the world's communications medium? I'd love
to know what your confidence level is.
Get rid of the @large. Keep the GA impotent. Stall in every way
possible the creation of an IDNHC. Kill whatever doesn't play in your
sandbox and play as dirty as you can. Roll those tanks down main
street. Oh yeah, and while you're at it, lie, lie, lie.
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
From Internetweek:
Alternate Roots, Naming Systems Coming Under Fire
By Juliana Gruenwald, Interactive Week
June 4, 2001 2:51 PM ET
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2768503,
00.html
...While Lynn and others say ICANN can do little about alternative
approaches beyond stressing the importance of a single root, ICANN
board member Jonathan Cohen suggested Monday at ICANN's board
meeting that the names being offered by these alternative operators
should be given to someone else when ICANN moves to introduce a
second round of new gTLDs.
"There should be clear notice to those out there on alternate roots, if
they choose a top-level domain because they think they can move
faster than we, that won't prevent us from choosing it," Cohen said.
"Otherwise it's open season." ...
-------------------------------
For Pete's sake, anyone could move faster than ICANN. More
important, however, is the fact that the TLDs they are attempting to
steal have been around longer than they have and have co-exsited just
fine. This august body is willing to create collisions in order to prove a
point, but what point? They create a problem and then blame someone
else for its consequences. That's really bright, ICANN. It will backfire
one day. The "American Joke" as coined by users outside the US
could become the "American Internet Tragedy," all because of the
desire for absolute power.
Leah
On 8 Jun 2001, at 2:42, NameCritic wrote:
> What a spin. Complete his draft? LOL. By himself? Doubtful. He thought it
> was complete methinks.
>
> Lose 1.4 million and consider the meeting a success?
>
> Great footwork.
>
> Chris McElroy aka NameCritic
>
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> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 1:13 AM
> Subject: [ga-icann] Re: [icann-announce] ICANN Concludes Quarterly
> Stockholm Meetings
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> > To: ICANN Announcement List <icann-announce@icann.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 12:38 AM
> > Subject: [icann-announce] ICANN Concludes Quarterly Stockholm Meetings
> >
> >
> > ICANN Concludes Quarterly Stockholm Meetings
> > (Some 600 participants from more than 100 countries discuss
> > Internet domain names and numbers)
> >
> > Stockholm, Sweden (4 June 2001) -- The Internet Corporation for
> > Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) concluded its quarterly meeting
> > in Stockholm, receiving input from Internet users, engineers
> > and professionals, and repreentatives of businesses, registries,
> > and registrars from around the world.
> >
> > "The meeting was a great success," stated ICANN President/CEO
> > M. Stuart Lynn. "There was substantive discussion on some key
> > issues. It was my first meeting as President, and it was good to
> > meet so many involved participants." Lynn became President/CEO of
> > ICANN following its previous meeting last March in Melbourne.
> >
> > Participants attended the four-day meeting to enhance their
> > understanding of various topics and voice their opinions, concerns
> > and suggestions. Topics of discussion included additional top-level
> > domains (TLDs), status of ccTLDs (TLDs associated with individual
> > countries), status on the at-large study on ICANN, using non-
> > English characters used for Internet domain names, and the complex
> > issue of alternate roots.
> >
> > The Meeting Agenda Included:
> >
> > * Orientation session for new participants; Advisory Committees;
> > DNSO Constituencies and Working Groups; Governmental Advisory
> > Committee
> > * DNSO Names Council and General Assembly
> > * ICANN Public Forum (where delegates had the opportunity to ask
> > questions, make comments, raise issues of concern)
> > * ICANN Board of Directors meeting (open to public observation)
> >
> > Board Action Taken At This Meeting:
> >
> > * Passed the budget for the next financial year starting 1 July
> > 2001
> > * Adopted a new fee structure for Registrars
> > * Launched a process to evaluate the new TLDs
> > * The Board also informally encouraged the President to complete
> > and post his ICANN policy paper on a single authoritative root
> >
> > * * *
> >
> > Archives of the ICANN meetings have been posted in the online
> > meeting archive at
> > <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/stockholm/archive>. The
> > archives include agendas, RealVideo recordings, scribe's notes,
> > documents and presentations discussed, real-time questions received, and
> > online discussion logs. If you're not already subscribed to ICANN's
> > announcements list, you may find it helpful to join in order to receive
> > important future announcements from ICANN. See
> > <http://www.icann.org/announcements> for instructions.
> >
> > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> >
> > ICANN is a technical coordination body for the Internet. Created
> > in October 1998 by a broad coalition of the Internet's business,
> > technical, academic, and user communities, ICANN is assuming
> > responsibility for a set of technical functions previously
> > performed under U.S. government contract by IANA and other groups.
> >
> > Specifically, ICANN coordinates the assignment of the following
> > identifiers that must be globally unique for the Internet to
> > function:
> >
> > * Internet domain names
> > * IP address numbers
> > * Protocol parameter and port numbers
> >
> > In addition, ICANN coordinates the stable operation of the
> > Internet's root server system.
> >
> > As a non-profit, private-sector corporation, ICANN is dedicated to
> > preserving the operational stability of the Internet; to promoting
> > competition; to achieving broad representation of global Internet
> > communities; and to developing policy through private-sector,
> > bottom-up, consensus-based means. ICANN welcomes the participation
> > of any interested Internet user, business, or organization.
> >
> > For further information contact Mary Hewitt, Director of
> > Communications, at (310) 823-9358 or <press@icann.org>.
> >
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