Tony Rutkowski wrote:
As well as holding its meetings at low-cost locations that
facilitated the maximum number of interested parties, instead
at places that diminish openness, attendance, scrutiny, etc.
Apparently the DNSO GA "consensus" was decided largely
decided by Chilean students
The Berkman Center for Internet and Society has nearly completed the online
multimedia archive of last week's Santiago, Chile meetings of the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN, http://www.icann.org).
The online archive includes RealVideo of all plenary sessions (in
Tony Rutkowski wrote:
Joe Sims wrote:
On your question, since any national government can join GAC by simply
saying so, the GAC is by definition those governments that care enough
about these issues to participate in it.
The GAC was not constituted by random self-organization. With only
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/biztech/articles/30ican.html
Internet Body Feels Democracy's Tug
By JERI CLAUSING
[snip]
During a public session that the board held on Wednesday, Esther
Dyson, an American who is the board's interim chairwoman, responded to
Icann's
Bill,
You wrote:
My nose insists upon telling me that I smell something putrid.
This malady started when on internet.com I first read "ICANN
Adopts Cyber-Squatting Policy" and then "ICANN gets Financial
Boost." Is that not what many of us have been concerned about
for years now, that
Ellen and all,
Essentially we [INEGroup] are in agreement with Ellen Rony's comments
here. Good substance always follows good process. A FACT that it
seems Esther Dyson has either forgotten, or is purposefully ignoring,
for reasons that most of us involved in the "Process" understand
oh too
Roberto and all,
Financing ICANN with a $1 per domain registration is a tax, and therefore
is not expectable as is basing their financing on membership fees. This
is a poor financing model. They have had several opportunities for financing
from several different sources and either did not
In the words of our american fathers - taxation without representation is
not nice.
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Jeff Williams wrote:
Roberto and all,
Financing ICANN with a $1 per domain registration is a tax, and therefore
is not expectable as is basing their financing on membership fees.
COMMUNICATIONS-RELATED HEADLINES for AUGUST 30, 1999
INTERNET
DEMOCRACY TUGS AT INTERNET AGENCY
Issue: Internet
Comparing it to a "constitutional convention for cyberspace without half
the colonies," critics charge that the interim board of the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and
It just happens that Governments (on the average) have a different approach,
and until you cannot find a way to ignore the Governments will, we have to
live with that.
Regards
Roberto
For Canada at least, and I suspect other countries, this has not shown to
be "the will of the Government of
That's why I was in favour of financing ICANN in a different way, like for
instance with a $1 fee on domain names, or with a membership fee.
I'd be happy to pay the $1/name tax if I had a voice in the making of the
policies of the Domain Name System or IP address allocation.
But I don't.
What I will enjoy most in this documentary is to see all those that were
against alternate sources of funding (membership, $1 domain name fee, and so
on) now complaining that ICANN has taken the money somewhere else, as if
this was not obvious to everybody (and spelled out clearly) since the
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Mr. Gaetano and Everyone,
Your "Labeling" of other organizations as "troglodytes of the
telecommunications field" it a bit extreme. Such belief's or
"Labels" should be kept to oneself if you indeed harbor
such feelings. Other governments have different opinions
that may differ slightly or
Mr. Smith and Everyone,
I am inclined to agree with you Mr. Smith. Ms. Dysons
comments of late and at the Santiago conference in particular
were clues to her prevailing attitude towards stakeholders
in general. Such an attitude should not be afforded anyone
in her position, and thus,
Hi Roberto,
I appreciate the thoughtful comment.
Even supposing that the initial list was
biased at the certain point in time
(which I disagree, but is not the point under discussion), it seems to
me
that if a Government cares there's nothing that prevents it to change
the
contact person.
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Karl Auerbach wrote:
[Roberto Gaetano:]
That's why I was in favour of financing ICANN in a different way, like for
instance with a $1 fee on domain names, or with a membership fee.
I'd be happy to pay the $1/name tax if I had a voice in the making of the
policies
William and all,
Please keep this sort of thing to your listed or otherwise customers
if you would please
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FYI -- this was just sent to almost
200 reporters covering DNS issues:
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Subject: Another Test of Media Bias
Here is what the Congressional Committee
on Oversight and Investigation is
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