At 10:16 AM 8/4/00 -0400, Michael Sondow wrote:
>Jean Camp wrote:
>>
>> As friends, or at least a collegial colleague, of people on both sides of
>> what began as a cooperative process and has become a series of sometimes
>> personal battles I believe I offer an useful perspective on ICANN.
>
>Unfortunately, your perspective is not useful, principally because
>your premises are incorrect.
>
>ICANN did not begin as a cooperative process, as you claim; it began
>as a coup d'etat by a small group of persons (Roger Cochetti of IBM,
>Vint Cerf of MCI, Mike Roberts of ISOC, and Joe Sims of JonesDay,
>primarily) who fabricated a board of directors that represents no
>cooperation except that between the government and big business.
>
>What this process has become is not in any way a series of personal
>battles, as you claim, but rather a political battle between those
>forces that wish to preserve the internet for free communications
>and those who wish to place it under the control of big business so
>that it can be exploited by them for profit.
http://dns.vrx.net/news/by_date/old/1995/Feb/
http://dns.vrx.net/news/by_date/old/1995/Mar/
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