Re: [ga] *IF* ICANN fails what about UN?

[Patrick Greenwell <patrick@stealthgeeks.net>]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:

> Hmmm....I do not think of myself as a scholar, yet I think of myself as 
> being able to think about matters of policy. Should I feel slighted?
> 
> My personal feeling is that if ICANN fails, we'll have to go through the 
> whole exercise over again, and the end result is likely to have the same 
> faults as ICANN, since the external pressures that are the basis for these 
> faults (money power in a few hands, little coherence among the users, deep 
> distrust among both the users and the money powers towards governmental 
> solutions) remain much the same.

When ICANN has been proven to have failed, it will be because those that
create and use the resources will have routed around ICANN.


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