"Richard J. Sexton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Esther Dysan was the first person to explain who contacted her
>in a teleconferance with ORSC. She said she was apprached
>by Ira and Roger Cochetti of IBM.
My fault. I went back in the archives and checked. Joe Sims and
Larry Landweber were also mentioned. See the "trust building
exercise" thread and some other threads it spun off.
>From Postel to IAHC to ICANN there has always been
>an "authority" that will decice things, thus relieving
>the community of *having to get along*. As long as they
>all scream their points loudly, the authority will hear
>so they focus on that instead of cooperating with each other.
>If there was no god (or Jon or Ira) given authority, and
>npbody to impress or blame, the community would have to
>work together, instead, or see no forward movement.
Since the ICANN is (supposedly) an interim board, shouldn't we
(ie. folks on this list) be doing that anyway? So, what would all of
you do if there was no ICANN? More specificially, what if the USG
(and other governments) were to totally step back from the process,
and say "ok, you win -- you get to self-govern. The only stipulation
is that you get no protection from us if laws are broken. If you're
hauled into court, it's up to you to provide your own defense, as you
are in a sense creating your own rules."
What would you do?
--gregbo
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