At 2/28/02 02:47 AM, Richard J. Sexton wrote: >The problem, Jay as I see it, is this: can ICANN be reformed? I don't >think so - not with the people that are in charge of it now. Why are >they there then? Ira/the DoC appointed them. Why the DoC? >Because in the Inter-agency Domain Name Task force meetings 4 >years ago the DoC claimed to have all the answers so when >everybody else stopped snickering, they told them "sure, go run with >it". Why did the DoC want to run is? Large 3 letter corporations >lobbied to the tune of tens if not hundreds of millions to make sure >DoC got the ball. Follow the money. > >Remember, this is still all under DoC oversight. ICANN has admitted >they're "in constant communications" with them just like they're in >"constant communications" with foreign governments - which is rightly >the job of the State Department.
Hi Richard, Can ICANN be reformed? I don't see how, when it is a result of a political process that is every bit as corrupt as ICANN is. That's why I wrote: >ICANN taking over the Internet is not the problem. >It is merely a reflection of our current "system" >as it has evolved over time. >This has manifested itself into, once again, the installation of power of >a group, not of the community, over that community - In this sense >ICANN is just a recapitulation of the IAHC disaster; sero sum games >both. The IFWP consensus documents came very very close to this >whole group acting as a coherent one but big monied interests acting through >outside forces not really committed to the community it pretended to >be a part of couldn't let that happen and the thing was derailed faster >then Enron became a national laughing stock. > >Kill the head and the body will die. Nothing will get done till the DoC >is taken out of the position of having absolute power. Or thinking it >does. But the DoC is the result of a political process every bit as corrupt as the DoC is. What we have is a systemic problem, one that can be described by field theory. To fix it, we'll need a comprehensive approach. >They had their chance, we've suffered 4 years of them screwing up >and I think that's enough. Agreed :-) Jay. >-- > With foxes we must play the fox. - unknown > /"\ / http://www.vrx.net > \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN / http://killifish.vrx.net > X AGAINST HTML MAIL / [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 (613) 473-1719 > / \ AND POSTINGS / http://www.mbz.org http://www.dnso.com +++ Jay Fenello, Internet Coaching http://www.Fenello.com ... 678-585-9765 http://www.YourWebPartner.com ... Web Support http://www.AligningWithPurpose.com ... for a Better World --------------------------------------------------------- "The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize and act to change it. That's never been impossible and never been easy." -- Noam Chomsky
