Re: [ga] who owns the internet

[steinle@smartvia.de]

Hi Tim,

could you please tell us why you closed your message board on http://www.xtns.net without prior notice?
Where are your 'domains'?
Your information of the public is worse than ICANNs.

Please inform us now what is going on with xtns.

Thanks
Simon

> 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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