Re: [ga] We can't be against it?

["Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>]

"Exploiting a National Tragedy"
http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=388

On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Marc Schneiders wrote:

> Yesterday ICANN announced (see www.icann.org) that the next meeting
> in MdR (LA) will be different and mainly devoted to security issues
> following the September 11 tragedies. Other topics on the agenda will
> probably be postponed. 
> 
> I am amazed not seeing any comment on this, here or elsewhere. Am I
> the only one who gets the funny feeling that there is something wrong
> here? Not that I am against the stability of the internet. But I would
> think that if there is one subject that is not really suited to deal
> with in an open transparent and bottom up process it is security
> measures. And nobody is against getting some root-servers.net out of
> Virginia into other parts of the world anyway. 
> 
> Now, I know, I may be in a very bad mood, because of Autumn, or
> something else, but I have this funny feeling, that this is an attempt
> to postpone some other serious issues, mainly the At Large, perhaps
> ..ORG, because certain people are uncomfortable with them.
> 
> Please, tell me why I am mistaken! 
> 
> 

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