Re: PAB Re: Press Release: Governments Endorse Private Sector Internet

[K S LIM <ks_lim@logchina.com.sg>]

Kevin J. Connolly wrote:
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> Dear Readers:
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> Sean Garrett <icanncomm@go.com> wrote on 03/02/99 at 02:33PM
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> {snip}
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> >Singapore, March 2, 1999 ) A powerful group of governments today endorsed the
> >establishment of the private-sector model for the technical administration of the Internet.  In a >critical milestone for the establishment of the new market-led technical management structure, >nearly 20 national governments from around the world reinforced the need for market-led >solutions to the fast-moving evolution of the Internet.   Their actions confirmed the principles >first put in motion by the United States government in July 1998.
> 
> The declaration that the principles underlying ICANN's activity were first put in motion by the United States government in July 1998 should finally put to rest any thought that this process is in any way related to Jon Postel's ur-proposal or Don Heath's revision of it.  ICANN is not about the enlargement of the generic top level domain space; and while, perhaps, such a enlargement may ultimately take place, it is doubtful in the extreme that the expansion will be of the type that anyone other
> 
> Apparently, all of the work that was done by ISOC, PAB, and the IAHC are neither worthy of mention nor hopeful of progeny under the ICANN regime.  This is sad to see.
> 
> Kevin J. Connolly
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Dear Kevin
Yes, I concur with you.
I am not so sure of my support to ICANN any more.
Best regards.
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