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

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

> From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand [mailto:harald@alvestrand.no]
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 12:39 PM
> 
> 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.

It sounds like complementary successes could lead to a merger?
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