Re: [ga-roots] ICANN Policy -- revised version

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

At 11:11 21/06/01 -0700, Kent Crispin wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:15:15PM -0400, L Gallegos wrote:
>[...]
> >
> > You see, Dassa, it is really just one issue.  A few in a small group
> > want to make sure that they control the Internet
>
>Yes, and that small group is you and your friends: a tiny group of
>closed, private, mostly for-profit companies.

Kent, you cannot truly believe this yourself.
"Control"? Leah?

Some people just want to remain free.

>   Whatever its faults,
>ICANN *in fact* is *tremendously* more representative of the interests
>of the internet population as a whole than are you and your friends.

A vibrant well organized @Large membership and an Individual Domain Name 
Holders constituency in the DNSO could prove that point one way or the 
other quite nicely.

--Joop--
Founder of the Cyberspace Association.
Former bootstrap of the IDNO (www.idno.org)
Developer of    The Polling Booth
www.democracy.org.nz


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