Re: [ga] who owns the internet

["Tim Langdell" <tim@xtns.net>]

Hi Marilyn

You mentioned at the ICANN meeting that you would like to see XTNS join the
BC. And I said I would be keen to see us join too. But since then I have
written you many times and not yet had a reply ... I have noted to you that
our partners (RealNames Corp) are already members of the BC, and thus
presumably it is acceptable for XTNS to be members too. Can you please
respond now and confirm that we may become members?

Tim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cade,Marilyn S - LGA" <mcade@att.com>
To: "'Jefsey Morfin'" <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>; <ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 1:56 PM
Subject: RE: [ga] who owns the internet


> I think there may be some confusion in the Jupiter Media Matrix comments
> between the WWW and the Internet -- seeming to think they are one and the
> same.  Let's not confuse them here in this discussion-- particularly since
> the GA does in fact represent many of the more sophisticated Internet
> stakeholders.
>
> The Jupiter Media Matrix report also missed a key fact:   growth in the
> number and the categories of web sites continues -- and while many use the
> term "Internet" and "WEB" interchangeably, they aren't the same thing.
:-)
>
> As for 60% of users online time being "controlled" by 14 companies -- that
> seems to ignore the amount of time users spend online sending and
responding
> to email -- still the most popular online activity, whether narrow band or
> broadband, at home or at work.
>
> As for what ICANN is responsible for, among it's other limited
> responsibilities, ICANN is introducing competition in the delivery of
> registration services; however, it has never had any oversight over the
> content of Web sites, nor the infrastructure which makes up the Internet.
> And, frankly, I would think that we would all agree with that!
>
> No one, not ICANN staff,ICANN board, nor ICANN stakeholders, wants to turn
> control of access to content and content on web sites,  over to anyone
other
> than themselves!  I would think that one of the general areas of agreement
> among the diverse ICANN stakeholder community.
>
> Marilyn
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jefsey Morfin [mailto:jefsey@wanadoo.fr]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 1:53 PM
> To: ga@dnso.org
> Subject: [ga] who owns the internet
>
>
> "Big corporations have a significant and growing presence on the Internet.
> In March, just 14 companies controlled 60 percent of users' online time,
> down from 110 companies two years earlier, Jupiter Media Metrix found.
> Policy decisions and technological developments in the next year and
beyond
> could give big business even greater power in the online world."
>
> This shows the failure of the ICANN which was supposed to foster
> competiton... I do not know if an other politic could have done better.
But
> this certainly explains the frustration of many.
>
> May be the author went confused with his words: "technical decisions for
> political development"  would better explain the situation.
>
> Jefsey
>
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