Re: [IFWP] Re: November Cook Report - intro and part 1 ISOC's critical role in enabling ICANN

[Diane Cabell]

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Subject: Re: [IFWP] Re: November Cook Report - intro and part 1 ISOC's
critical role in enabling ICANN
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> Are you sure that a public vote would not have the same results?
> After all, the people who are lobbying ICANN right now will just
> directly lobby the government(s) who wind up setting up Internet
> policy if ICANN falls.
>
> I'm all for voting, but I don't expect that a public vote would
> have outcomes much different than those which generally favor big
> business.
>
> --gregbo

The amount of trademark-friendly legislation that has sailed through
Congress recently is certainly strong evidence of that.

Diane Cabell
http://www.mama-tech.com
Fausett, Gaeta & Lund LLP
Boston, MA