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>Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 09:33:21 +0100
>From: Nigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: Re: [IFWP] ICANN neo-colonialism
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>> The CIA World Factbook
>> (http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/tk.html) lists the Turks and
>> Caicos Islands as a "dependent territory of the UK".
>
>In that case the CIA fact book is slightly out of date. There is no
>longer
>any such thing as "British Dependent Territory".
>
>TC is a 'British Overseas Territory'. (Just FYI in the first few months
>of
>the UK Labour Governemnt which was elected on May 1, 1997, the UK
>conducted a welcome rationalisation of the way it dealt with those
>territories which are outside the British Isles.) Again, just, FYI, Hong
>Kong was the last British Colony.
>
>The use of the term colony has been deprecated for years /especially by
>the colonised/.
>
>> any objective stanard, that makes it a "colony".
>
>Nonsense. Are the various possessions of the US to be regarded as
>colonies?
>
>
>> Sean Jackson lives in Cambridge, England (see
>> http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois?SJ1107), so the Turks
>> and Caicos islands are not "his country".
>
>So?
>
>Self-evidently, Mr Jackson, (who though I have met, have no other
>connection with) happens to be Technical Contact for the TC domain.
>
>This is perfectly permissible, and was even expected "in order to get
>networking started . . ". [By the way, who was the Technical Contact for
>.UM??
>Hint: see http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois?um8-dom
>Your "colonies" were clearly not his country, either]
>
>> the legitimacy of any claim he may have made to be a representative of the
>> T&C government.
>
>Whether or not Mr Jackson has been accredited by the Government of Turks
>and Caicos to attend in Berlin as an /observer/ on their behalf must be
>a matter or record. He either has been or has not been. I expect he
>has had a letter saying so.
>
>Futile barrack room lawyer debate on public mailing lists is like
>teaching a
>goat to sing. It doesn't get you anywhere and irritates everyone around
>you.
>
>It must be remembered that ICANN or any of its committees -- even the
>GAC
>-- is not (yet?) an intergovernmental organisation. It is a private
>company,
>operating an international non-profit organisation and under a
>requirement
>by the White Paper process to be open,inclusive and transparent.
>
>I fail to see how excluding /any/ observers from anywhere meets that
>requirement.
>
>Doing so is of little practical value anyway, since a number of
>countries (Scandinavia
>as one possible example) extend extremely wide ranging Freedom of
>Information rights
>to their citizens so it will all end up in the public domain anyway, as
>would all the
>relevant correspondence.
>
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