Michael and all,
Michael Sondow wrote:
> 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 essence we [INEGroup] agree with your concern here Michael,
and hope that the House Commerce commission will correct or augment
this list in the near future.
>
>
> 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.
I think that Mikki Berry has been pretty outspoken on various
mailing lists in the past. However it MAY be that Mikki will not
be as outspoken when testifying to the Commerce Commission.
We [INEGroup] would hope that this will however not be the
case...
>
>
> 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.
I disagree as do the members of the INEGroup with respect to
Weinberg here... Also James Love, has through other channels
been very involved, though not on a daily basis perhaps.
>
>
> 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?
I would hope that they do. However Written testimony is also
part of these proceedings as well...
>
>
> 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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