RE: [ga] FW: Comment from the gTLD Registry Constituency

["J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin" <jefsey@club-internet.fr>]

On 15:42 29/09/02, Gomes, Chuck said:
>I disagree with a couple points Karl.  Public utility commissions are

Dear Chuck,
I am sorry but this is out of Internet context and entrapped by ICANN.

- as soon as you use a word specific to one administrative culture you are 
out of international context.
PUC for me means Paris University Club, a very well known and old sport 
club which grand-fathered the Olympic movement.

- when you use an US word you alos are entrapped into ICANN scenario. 
Intuitively or well planned ICANN is only here to enforce an US 
understanding of the Internet that as a European user I oppose on quite 
every ground (47 USC 230 (f)(1): the international computer network of both 
federal and non federal interoperable packet switch networks).

ICANN has no military capacity to enforce such a technically restrictive 
and politically disputable vision. This is a technical and way of life step 
back or even two steps back for us, making a technical control impossible 
(except through the "root bluff"). So Joe Sims tries to reach that control 
through contractual over complexity, weaving his contractual web.

With 11/9 the USA are to chose: either Joe Sims or Richard Clarke. History 
may very well remember that decision as the most important impact of 9/11. 
IMHO none of these options is a good one. I only hope Richard Clarke has 
understood what Ireland understood as early as 1983 and wants to use the 
coming months to make people believe they initiatiated that dramatic change 
from Computer Inquiry and 1996, there is a datanetwork per se ad there is a 
railway, a postal, an airline etc.. network, part of the support of the 
human global network society. And that trains did not create a "Station 
Society".
jfc