RE: [ga] Re: ICANN as a Governing Body

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 12:02 29/03/2001 -0800, Roeland Meyer wrote:
>I might submit that the ORSC has proven themselves much better at that game.
>One of the first steps is to acknowlege, without reservation, that an
>outside world exists. The failure of the ICANN, to take this crucial step,
>is a large part of what presented new.net with their market opportunity. Had
>ICANN incorporated ORSC principles, as they agreed to in 1998, new.net might
>not even exist. The systematic disenfranchisement, of those working in the
>other root-zones, is a large part of the problem. It presented the
>market-gap that new.net is moving to fill.

OTOH, one could argue that ICANN has been successful in gathering the 
interest, and sometimes even the support (albeit never warm, and with much 
argument and maneuvring), of the world's governments, Internet service 
provicers, Internet commercial organizations and even some Internet users - 
something ORSC has spectacularly failed to do.




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