Re: [wg-review] FYI: Update: U.S. Congress to hold February hearings on domain names

[Bret Busby <bret@clearsol.iinet.net.au>]

Roeland Meyer wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Chiu [mailto:CCHIU@aclu.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 3:49 PM
> > To: ncdnhc-discuss@lyris.isoc.org
> > Subject: Update: U.S. Congress to hold February hearings on
> > domain names
> >
> >
> > A subcommittee of the United States House of Representatives
> > is planning to
> > hold hearings on domain name policy in February 2001. As
> > mentioned earlier,
> > this move was apparently prompted by concerns that the
> > Internet Corporation
> > for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was unfair when it tentatively
> > approved a mere handful of new Top-Level Domains.
> >
> > See
> > http://www.internetdemocracyproject.org#highlights
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Christopher Chiu
> > Global Internet Liberty Campaign Organizer
> > American Civil Liberties Union
> >
> > ---

So, The USA federal government does control ICANN, and, the Internet

That is nice to know. We are all USA subjects.

-- 

Bret Busby

Armadale, West Australia

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