RE: [ga] Taxation without Representation etc.,

["Jeff Field" <jfield@aaaq.com>]

I'm not trying to be funny here; I'm curious.  What is the "intent of the
internet"?

Best regards,

Jeff

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org]On Behalf Of L.
> Gallegos
> Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 8:54 PM
> To: ga@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [ga] Taxation without Representation etc.,
>
>
> Too little, too late.  The media should have picked up on the ICANN
> problem two years ago at least so that the public would have had a bit
> of information.  Now ICANN will pass whatever the board likes and to
> heck with the public, US Congress and anyone outside the cartel.  In
> the end, it may doom ICANN, but not before the damage is done to
> dessimate the intent of the internet.  Nothing will change until
> the public
> simply ignores ICANN and makes individual choices for themselves.
>
> And people on this list wonder why alternatives are on the rise.
>
> Leah
>
>
> On 25 Jun 2002, at 12:00, Asaad Y. Alnajjar   (Millennium Inc.) wrote:
>
> > Oh well, one more article along the same subject.
> >
> >
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020625/wr_nm/m
> edia_internet_icann_dc_1
> >
> >
> > Asaad
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > At Tuesday, 25 June 2002, William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info> wrote:
> >
> > >Tuesday, June 25, 2002, 10:12:30 AM, Sotiris Sotiropoulos wrote:
> > >
> > >> All,
> > >
> > >> Here's the latest from news.com:
> > >
> > >> http://news.com.com/2100-1023-939061.html
> > >
> > >> These are the kinds of articles the public interest needs in the
> > >> mainstream media... my only question:  Why the hell haven't the
> > >> mainstream media people spoken up about ICANN's questionable
> activities
> >
> > >> in the past?
> > >
> > >I really hate ignorant reporting, especially from those reporting on
> > >the tech industry.
> > >
> > >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> > >EU officials also said they would prefer that the U.S. Department of
> > >Commerce, the government body that spawned ICANN in 1998, relinquish
> > >control of the root-server system, a master control database of
> > >Internet sites that ensures that Web traffic gets to its intended
> > >destination..
> > >
> > >The fear is that in the wrong hands the enormous database could be
> > >mined to determine all comings and goings on the Internet. Although
> > >there is no evidence that this has happened, the issue has attracted
> > >added attention in recent months as law-enforcement officials seek to
> > >shore up defenses against feared acts of cyberterrorism.
> > >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> > >
> > >The root zone doesn't need to be mined, it is public.  There is no
> > >sane reason to not have it public, and that last paragraph is just
> > >plain ignorance.
> > >
> > >--
> > >Best regards,
> > >William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>
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