Jay Fenello a �crit:
>
> According to News.com, the following witnesses will
> testify at Thursday's hearing on the Domain Name
> System Privatization: Is ICANN Out of Control?
>
> http://www.house.gov/commerce/schedule.htm
>
> � America Online,
> � Information Technology Association of America,
> � Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
> � Network Solutions
> � Richard Forman, chief executive of Register.com,
> � Ken Stubbs, chairman of CORE
>
> These witnesses are tentatively scheduled:
>
> � Jamie Love, director of the Consumer Project on Technology,
> � Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform,
> � Jonathan Weinberg, a law professor at Wayne State University,
> � Jonathan Zittrain, executive director at the Berkman Center,
> � Mikki Barry, president of the Domain Name Rights Coalition
>
> While this committee got a good mix of panelists
> and perspectives, they are grouped in an unfortunate
> order, and the second group is only tentative. That
> means that ICANN has been given home field advantage.
I don't agree that this is a good mix of perspectives. In the first
group, the only panelist opposed to ICANN's practices is NSI, which
is certainly not a representative of non-commercial, independent, or
individual end-users, who are supposed to share the NewCo with the
providers of Internet services according to the White Paper, but who
have been excluded from it by ICANN.
In the second group, the only one who could be considered a
representative of the user public and who has been directly involved
in this process is Mikki Barry, and she is a Washington lawyer who
will most likely not endanger her political position by speaking the
plain truths about the conspiracy that has created ICANN and is
using it to further their special interests.
Messieurs Norquist, Love, and Weinberg have not been involved
directly in the NewCo process. They may be "important" people, but
they have not been involved in the formation of ICANN, have not been
to the meetings, have not written proposals for the NewCo, the DNSO,
or the Constituencies, and are not representatives of domain name
holders.
Why hasn't the BWG, IDNO, or the ICIIU been invited to speak?
Doesn't the Commerce Committee want to hear the truth as seen by the
excluded users?
The end-users and consumers of Internet services are once again, and
in the same manner that ICANN has done it, being silenced.
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