At 02:23 PM 7/23/99 +0000, you wrote:
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> > We should expect a
> > long hard fought legal battle...coming soon. I do not understand how the
> > folks at NTIA could have made this error (if, indeed, they did) since
> > the DOC did not have the constitutional authority to transfer a database
> > held in "public trust" over to a private corporation.
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>5 years ago, hardly anybody had heard of 'intellectual property' ...
>But if the DoC overstepped its authority, does the public have
>standing to sue for its IP rights?
Sorry, the "public" has no rights to my domain name. It's a name I
made up to use on my private network, a network I choose to
make publically accessible to the world using the TCP/IP protocol
suite.
The public, as such, has no rights to my name or the set of all
names used by these private network operators. If the public,
registrs a name thentheyhave as much say in the system, modulo
a clue, as any other player. That's true whether it's IBM or
Joe T. Hobbyist.
>> This issue is going to be a very big deal, IMHO.
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>Esp since, first thing, Burr admitted that the whole shebang is
>revocable if ICANN doesnt shape up as NewCo, just as NSI has
>been saying.
I think the thing that I missed from yesterdats hearing as eveyrbody
spoke much and said little was a 90 second statement *somebody* should
have made that might have gone like this:
"Hello. The Internet self organizes. That's what it does, and
why it's so big, successful and robust.
The Internet community began self organizing to create new top
level domains a few years ago and was torpedod by IAHC.
Then, after incentive and support by the US Government, it began
self organzing again with the IFWP process. This was torpeod
by the ICANN; many of the players were the same ones that were
in fialed IAHC attempt.
The Internet is still self organizing, and is currently routing
around the centralist damage; the people with servers have
had enough and have gone back to work on infrastructure; no
more talk.
Thank you"
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