[IFWP] Vint Cerf New ICANN Chair
Jay Fenello wrote: At 08:22 PM 11/16/00, Judith Oppenheimer wrote: A brief "special" board meeting followed at which Vint Cerf was named new ICANN Chair. I foretold that this would happen, over a year ago. The idea was scoffed at. Now it has come to pass exactly as I predicted, and as any astute and honest observer should have foreseen. Vint Cerf was always slated to run the Internet Government. He wasn't made chairman from the beginning because it would have been too obvious that ICANN was fixed, but ISOC and its dictator Cerf have been behind the ICANN fix even before the White Paper was published. ISOC, its corporate backers, its creatures like CORE, and its co-opted government officials like Burr are the conspiracy that, in its blind and selfish elitism, has stifled every attempt to achieve a balance of powers in Internet governance. The appointment of Vint Cerf as ICANN chairman is the final proof, if such were needed, that ICANN was never intended to be a democratic organization, and that it was conceived and carried out by a select group of Internet insiders who have always run the Internet and who have now consolidated their control so that no new people, and no users, can influence its policies. This is the very definition of a dictatorship, and reflects the arrogance of a national government that has reached such a pinnacle of authoritarianism that it no longer feels the need to give even lip service to the law, since it dominates the agencies supposed to enforce the law, and which despises those of us who live and work under its regime. This dictatorship has been achieved by control of the press and of education, and by corrupting not only the people's representatives but the people themselves. Every one of you who acquiesces to the dictatorship of the Internet through the undemocratic and illegal ICANN and its committees is complicit in the betrayal and overthrow of Internet democracy, indeed of democracy itself, since without free communication there can be no democracy. === "The law of nature, as a set of uncodified commands implicitly accepted by the mind and conscience of every reasonable person, is merely the concept of Divine Law under another name. Time and time again it has operated to overthrow entire systems of positive law." --Felix Morley, "The Power in the People" International Congress of Independent Internet Users (ICIIU) http://www.iciiu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[IFWP] ICANN, Mike Roberts, and Richard Foreman
COMPUTERGRAM INTERNATIONAL: NOVEMBER 20 2000 + New Domain Backlash Begins By Kevin Murphy Naturally, successful candidates from the 44 applications received declared the whole controversial process a success. Register.com Inc, which was part of the consortia awarded .info and .pro, said: "This has been a challenging process, but we appreciate ICANN making it transparent and fair." ICANN's President, Mike Roberts, has been colluding with Richard Foreman, head of Register.com, for a long time, as their 1999 interview for PC-radio.com demonstrates. This is another antitrust law violation which will come out some day in legal proceedings, if someone has the courage some day to see to it that the laws of the United States are enforced. Michael Sondow = INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF INDEPENDENT INTERNET USERS http://www.iciiu.org(ICIIU)[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel(718)846-7482Fax(603)754-8927 =
[IFWP] Re: Vint Cerf New ICANN Chair
I've had more productive, friendly and constructive exchanges with Vint in the last two days than I had in two years of trying to talk to Esther. Perhaps I'm being co-opted but I sense a new era of a willingness to cooperate here. I am encouraged. -- http://www.hungersite.org/cgi-bin/donate.pl http://www.clearlandmines.com Richard Sexton | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://dns.vrx.net/tech/rootzone http://killifish.vrx.nethttp://www.mbz.orghttp://lists.aquaria.net "Maitland House, Bannockburn, Ontario, CANADA, K0K 1Y0"; 1 613 473-1719
[IFWP] Deluded Organizations Supporting State-corporatism
Richard J. Sexton wrote: From: Hans Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] CYBER-FEDERALIST No. 7November 16, 2000 ICANN AT LARGE MEMBERS LAUNCH COORDINATING COMMITTEE The ICC will promote and facilitate user participation in ICANN by Internet users from around the globe. The participation of users in ICANN, an organization committed to blocking their interests in the Internet, is no different from employees joining a company union. The ICC is intended to help the membership develop a collective voice with which to speak out on issues. This may be its intention, but its effect is to legitimize the anti-user policies of ICANN by the adhesion of users whose interests are being undermined. A high priority issue for the At Large membership is the "Clean Sheet" study proposed by the Board at their July meeting in Yokohama. At that time, the At Large Membership had not yet even been constituted. Yet the study's mandate is to reconsider the very existence of the At Large membership -- a prospect that seems at odds with the remarkable success of the At Large elections in which some 158,000 users participated. The ICC will be working with members to help articulate the member perspective on this study. Yes, the "clean slate" bylaw is invidious to the existence of an @large membership. But even without the clean slate study, no @large member of ICANN enjoys the legal status of a member in the corporation. This is clearly spelled out now in ICANN's bylaws. And these are not the sole anti-user bylaws, not by a long shot. The bylaws referring to a DNSO having one out of seven constituencies for non-commercial users, when the White Paper creating ICANN as well as congressional testimony by the DOC contractor, Becky Burr, clearly give users a 50% stake in the DNSO, are equally insidious, as are all other bylaws disenfranchising Internet users from Internet governance. Another issue for the ICC is the legal status of the ICANN membership. At Large Members need to fully understand the rights and responsibilities should accompany membership. There are no rights to @large membership. The @large members are not legally members of ICANN, according to ICANN's bylaws. They have no rights. They cannot remove directors, they cannot vote on policy decisions, they cannot even demand to see an accounting of the corporation's finances. @large membership is a fraud, cleverly created by Touton and company to keep Internet users from having any authority in governance. "The ICC is committed to constructive engagement with the existing Board," said Wolfgang Kleinwaechter, professor at the University of Aarhus. "ICANN processes have sometimes been contentious, but with this important step forward in the implementation of the At Large membership, there is a renewed willingness to work together for effective problem-solving." This man is either deluded, or he is another in the army of ICANN apologists attempting to pull the wool over the eyes of the users. Michael Sondow = INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF INDEPENDENT INTERNET USERS http://www.iciiu.org(ICIIU)[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel(718)846-7482Fax(603)754-8927 =
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