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From: "Brian Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 3:03 PM
Subject: [July30] PLEASE CHECK THIS OUT!!!!
> July 30 in Philly - www.unity2000.com
>
>
> >Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 18:35:25 -0400 (EDT)
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Join the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN)
> >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 119
> >Original-recipient: rfc822;[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >To friends on several mail lists
> >
> >Hi folks,
> >
> >The deadline for joining the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
> >and Numbers (ICANN) as voting members at-large is July 31. If you,
> >like myself, have not yet become familiar with the purpose and
> >importance of ICANN, the safest bet is to sign on before July 31, and
> >sort it out later. There is no membership fee.
> >
> >Below please find Craig Hubley's appeal for more at-large members to
> >off set the establishment members.
> >
> >Warm regards,
> >
> >Wesburt
> >
> > >>>>>>>>>>>> Begin Craig Hubley's appeal <<<<<<<<<<<
> >Subj: [grb] [please forward] critical that activists join ICANN by
July 31
> >Date: 07/27/2000 5:36:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig Hubley)
> >Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (sid lacombe), [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >Sid,
> >
> >Major global trade hell heads-up: direct trade in meanings of words,
> >in all languages, which is a fait accompli without immediate action:
> >----
> >URGENT - PLEASE FORWARD - activists, please join ICANN by July 31.
> >
> >The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is
> >about to decide what words and phrases will become globally respected
> >and protected intellectual property for purposes of distributing
> >information on the Internet. Which is, increasingly, all information.
> >
> >Why do you care? Because whoever controls the meanings of phrases like
> >like "organic.food" or "black.crime" or "master.race" or "safe.streets"
> >or "real.news" or "loving.god" or "treason" or "terror" or "truth"
> >itself is going to have endless opportunities to distort that truth.
> >
> >Some words shouldn't be private property. In fact some are essential
> >to the communication of basic body and family and social decisions.
> >In the offline political system, we fight for years to change simple
> >definitions of words like "crime" and "justice". In the new online
> >system, as in Orwell's "1984", there is a market in meanings of words.
> >
> >You have only until Monday to decide if you will be a *maker* of
> >these decisions, or a *victim* of these decisions. ICANN will not
> >go away by protests or wishing. It's like WTO. Please, activists:
> >
> >Join ICANN. Without it you don't get a vote on what Internet
> >names mean and who gets TLDs or dispute rights to tell what stories:
> >
> >http://www.members.icann.org/join_now.htm <-- join before July 31!
> >
> >This is very important. Please forward it to as many 16-and-up year
> >olds as possible. The word "organic" could be meaningless, as could
> >the words "vegan" or "cruelty free" or "free range" if the new net
> >naming spaces are allowed to be created without any ecological or
> >social accountability, or even "truth in advertising". As it is now
> >the name "Coke" could end up with strong protections in new TLDs but
> >the word "vegan" would end up with none. The World Intellectual
> >Property Organization has laid out their positions in ICANN, now it's
> >time for the opposition to do so.
> >
> >http://www.members.icann.org/join_now.htm
> >
> >Those who join by July 31 will have a voice in the October elections
> >to the ICANN At Large Board. Those who don't, will be whining for the
> >rest of their lives that Internet names have become a jumble and chaos
> >where you can't find out the truth unless you spend a lot of money on
> >it... where you may not even have a *voice* in what words in your own
> >language mean. Personally, people who don't join are going to find it
> >very hard to get me to pay attention to their complaints about labels!
> >
> >This is *THE* global labelling system. There will not be another one!
> >
> >http://www.members.icann.org/join_now.htm <-- join before July 31!
> >
> >Among other things, the new ICANN At Large Board of Directors will be
> >able to fight to ensure that misleading use of important label words,
> >like "vegan", "kosher", "halal", "organic", etc., *DON'T JUST FALL TO
> >THE HIGHEST BIDDER* as have so many words in the ".com", ".net" and
> >even the ".org" names spaces (to say nothing of the .tm and .tv ...!)
> >
> >http://www.members.icann.org/join_now.htm <-- join before July 31!
> >
> >Forward widely. This is your citizenship in the Internet at stake!
> > >>>>>>>>>>>> End Craig Hubley's appeal <<<<<<<<<<<
>
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