Re: [ga] Taxation without Representation etc.,

["L. Gallegos" <jandl@jandl.com>]

Too little, too late.  The media should have picked up on the ICANN 
problem two years ago at least so that the public would have had a bit 
of information.  Now ICANN will pass whatever the board likes and to 
heck with the public, US Congress and anyone outside the cartel.  In 
the end, it may doom ICANN, but not before the damage is done to 
dessimate the intent of the internet.  Nothing will change until the public 
simply ignores ICANN and makes individual choices for themselves.  

And people on this list wonder why alternatives are on the rise.

Leah


On 25 Jun 2002, at 12:00, Asaad Y. Alnajjar   (Millennium Inc.) wrote:

> Oh well, one more article along the same subject.
> 
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020625/wr_nm/media_internet_icann_dc_1
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> Asaad
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> At Tuesday, 25 June 2002, William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info> wrote:
> 
> >Tuesday, June 25, 2002, 10:12:30 AM, Sotiris Sotiropoulos wrote:
> >
> >> All,
> >
> >> Here's the latest from news.com:
> >
> >> http://news.com.com/2100-1023-939061.html
> >
> >> These are the kinds of articles the public interest needs in the 
> >> mainstream media... my only question:  Why the hell haven't the 
> >> mainstream media people spoken up about ICANN's questionable activities 
> 
> >> in the past?
> >
> >I really hate ignorant reporting, especially from those reporting on
> >the tech industry.
> >
> >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> >EU officials also said they would prefer that the U.S. Department of
> >Commerce, the government body that spawned ICANN in 1998, relinquish
> >control of the root-server system, a master control database of
> >Internet sites that ensures that Web traffic gets to its intended
> >destination..
> >
> >The fear is that in the wrong hands the enormous database could be
> >mined to determine all comings and goings on the Internet. Although
> >there is no evidence that this has happened, the issue has attracted
> >added attention in recent months as law-enforcement officials seek to
> >shore up defenses against feared acts of cyberterrorism.
> >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> >
> >The root zone doesn't need to be mined, it is public.  There is no
> >sane reason to not have it public, and that last paragraph is just
> >plain ignorance.
> >
> >-- 
> >Best regards,
> >William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>
> >--
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