You wrote:
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> ICANN in its present form is an accident, a monstrosity, a thing
> potentially of great power, but without any practical understanding of
> the Internet or any vision of where it should go.
This is a entirely erroneous analysis. ICANN is no accident. It is
the carefully laid plan of a coalition lead by the big Internet
businesses that control ISOC (MCI and IBM primarily) together with a
combine of second-tier telcos and registrars in CORE. These people
know everything about the Internet. Many were involved in its
creation. ICANN is their political creation and cover for taking
control, or taking back control, of a runaway successful Internet
that has gotten out of their hands and threatens their continued
businesses.
As such, ICANN is a trade association conspiring to illegally
regulate interstate and international commerce for the purpose of
restraining free enterprise and eliminating competition. ICANN is in
violation of the U.S. and international antitrust laws, which were
made precisely to keep this sort of thing from happening, for the
good of the consumers, that is, the user public.
All these naive statements about ICANN being an "error" or an
"accident" just play into their hands. It's what they want you to
think, which is why Joe Sims and Becky Burr repeated over and over
in the hearings last October, and repeat ad infinitem until you
weaken and start to believe them, that the selection of the Board
was indiscriminate. It was nothing of the sort. Every one of those
people on the board was carefully selected for their agreement with
and involvement in the business plan of the special interest group
that has conspired to gain control of the Internet infrastructure.
That goes as well for the GAC, the Root Server Advisory Committee,
the DNSO constituencies, the Names Council, and every other
structure within ICANN. They are not comprised of a representative
cross-section of international Internet interests. They are all,
every one of them, directly controlled by members of the team that
has conspired to put ICANN in place.
