Congratulations, Cliff!
I'm planting seedthoughts about an Internet constitution
while Cliff's arbitration group has actually produced a draft,
(Please goto: http://www.endispute.co.uk/isr/israem.htm),
which we could, indeed, discuss and amend and evolve.
His posting is definitely a start in the right direction!
-- ken
Also see: http://www.media-visions.com/icann-involved.htm
Ken Freed, Publisher
Media Visions Webzine
(a journal of global sense)
http://www.media-visions.com
P.S. Please forward this posting to the AWPA list, Thanks.
>Hello all.
>
>As I went through the "Internet Awakening" string of messages it struck me
>that comment on ICAAN was dominated by North Americans. That must be
>unhealthy and I was glad to see that a compatriot has already made an
>appropriate comment.
>
>The "Internet Awakening" String finishes up:
>
> > The issue is not whether people can make money
> > from the Internet, but whether commercialisation is
> > going to be done in a socially responsible manner.
>
> And if one countries take on how it should be done should
> impact the rest.
>
> > We need governance by laws, not committees,
> > and I renew the call for an Internet Constitution,
>
> Sounds noble. The one thing people seem to agree on is
> they don't want it done someone else's way.
>
>
>Humbly I suggest that an Internet Constitution can only come about with
>small, amendable and reversible steps over as long as it takes. The URL
>below offers a way. Everybody gets a say.
>
>
> Regards.
>
>
>Cliff Dilloway [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> For Internet Self Regulation see: www.endispute.co.uk\isr\israem.htm
>
>
>
>> > For the record, the commercialization of radio happened
>> > in the 1920's, and was the only way that the technology
>> > could be deployed on a mass scale.
>>
>> We (UK, in particular us the BBC) did quite well without commercial.
>> Just because one country can't do it any other way doesn't have to
>> impact all the others
>>
>> > As for the Forties'
>> > commercialization of television, this was the dream by
>> > both inventor Farnsworth and his fierce rivals at NBC,
>> > for sans a profit motive, no one would have bothered.
>>
>> We did public service TV too way before it grew to
>> a commercially interesting size.
>>
>> I'm not going to discuss who invented TV :)
>>
>> > The issue is not whether people can make money
>> > from the Internet, but whether commercialization is
>> > going to be done in a socially responsible manner.
>>
>> And if one coutries take on how it should be done should
>> impact the rest.
>>
>> > We need governance by laws, not committees,
>> > and I renew the call for an Internet Consitution,
>>
>> Sounds noble. The one thing people seem to agree on is
>> they don't want it done someone elses way.
>>
>> brandon
>>
>>
>>
>>
