[wg-review] [DNDEF] Ontology and value.

[Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>]

Sometimes I honestly feel as if I'm reading The Cybermyth... Mehinks the framer of the Articles of ICANN almost rivals Plato himself in the Timaeus for 
obscurity and vagueness of meaning.    So... the DNSO is to support what? and in which capacity?  What does ICANN need the DNSO for?! a 
scapegoat, perhaps? 

Some of you have commented on the importance of the domain definition issue.  Some of you would probably like to know exactly why it's an issue.   

There are other moments when I feel that WGs and Forums and Lists are Behavioural Science Exercises, designed, guided, and somehow brought to 
concede something now termed a "consensus" which remains largely undefined (as evidenced by the plethora of opinions on this List alone).  All of it, of 
course, about a topic which has no epistemology, hence ethic, because it too lacks ontological definition.  However, through all this, I know that I, and 
others, are reading bills and statements for hosting and connectivity, and registrations and renewals for non-things- some of which have great value to 
certain groups who are actively waging a well-financed campaign to "repossess" **THINGS** OF NO DEFINITE ONTOLOGICAL STATUS!!!  I ask 
myself, how it is, that so many people and $s (and Francs, and Pounds, and Drachmas, & Euros) can be stirred up & motivated to activity and strife, 
without anyone even clearly knowing or having agreed upon what it is they're all relating to!?  If a domain is not some specific "thing", how can anyone 
lay a claim to it?  This is a question which needs to be asked and investigated ASAP.  How can something be no-thing? and how can no-thing sometimes 
be something, and sometimes not?

How can a Corporation within some State of the Union not be a Corporation?

ICANN!?!?

There is a way out of this morass.  However, WE must define IT.

Sotiris Sotiropoulos
          Hermes Network, Inc.

  

1/9/01 12:10:39 AM, "Chris McElroy" <watch-dog@inreach.com> wrote:

>I belive ICANN is trying to create International law. Only they call it
>SWIPO among other things.
>
>Chris McElroy aka NameCritic
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bret Busby" <bret@clearsol.iinet.net.au>
>To: <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>
>Cc: "Karl Auerbach" <karl@CaveBear.com>; "Peter de Blanc"
><pdeblanc@usvi.net>; <wg-review@dnso.org>
>Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 12:41 PM
>Subject: Re: [wg-review] View from here - Who pays????????????????
>
>
>> Sotiropoulos wrote:
>> >
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> > Wow Karl!  Talk about dropping a bomb...  Hmmm.  This does change things
>somewhat.  I'm with Karl on this! not a red cent until we are given full
>rights
>> > under California corporation law.
>>
>> So, Californian Law is to apply, meaning that it is not enforceable
>> outside California, or, outside the USA, and, this, not applicable
>> outside those jurisdictions?
>>
>> This appears to be returning to the bad old days, when the Internet was
>> controlled solely by the USA.
>>
>> How about using "Internet Law", and, if it does not exist, creating it,
>> and, so, internationalising the Internet, and, its controlling bodies?
>>
>> --
>>
>> Bret Busby
>>
>> Armadale, West Australia
>>
>> ......................................
>> "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the
>> answer means."
>>  - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
>>  - Douglas Adams, 1988
>> ......................................
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