PFIR appears to be an offshoot of ACM, the organization that has
brought us Kathy Kleiman, head of ACM's Internet Governance
Committee and the person who made the deal with ISOC to wrest
control of the Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders Constitutency
(NCDNHC) of the DNSO away from the users.
[forwarded with permission]
Hi Lauren,
At 01:57 PM 7/26/00, Lauren Weinstein wrote:
Hi. With the blocked redistributions for non-list members for some
of those lists, I've only replied to you.
As you can imagine, I'm rather inundated with e-mail right now
(more than the usual mountain) and
A New Leader for ICANN, by Aaron Pressman (The Standard - July 24)
http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17052,00.html
The domain name authority is looking for a successor for chairwoman Esther
Dyson. The leading candidate: Internet pioneer Vint Cerf.
Hi Lauren,
At 05:21 PM 7/26/00, Lauren Weinstein wrote:
Jay, (feel free to forward this if you wish)
We can certainly learn from the past, but we of course can't change it.
What's done is done, and we can but look to the future. In the PRIVACY
realm where I've spent much of my time, I've
Two years ago I posted to these lists messages saying that ISOC,
whose principal backers are IBM, MCI, and ATT, was the ringleader
of the ICANN scam and that Vint Cerf, ISOC's founder, would end up
being President of ICANN. Everyone laughed and said I was crazy, or
worse. Now it's time for
http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17052,00.html
A New Leader For ICANN
Burr says in a few months she will quit the Commerce Department to
return to the private sector.
Watch closely where Burr goes in the private sector. The people she
helped to take control of the
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Ellen Rony wrote:
A New Leader for ICANN, by Aaron Pressman (The Standard - July 24)
http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17052,00.html
The domain name authority is looking for a successor for chairwoman Esther
Dyson. The leading candidate: Internet
Lauren Weinstein of PFIR wrote:
We basically have not felt that there was much point in participating
in the existing (broken) ICANN process. There hasn't been a budget
that would allow for flying around to the meetings in any case...
That's big bucks to us.
Though Peter and I as
Hi Lauren,
Thank you for your comments.
If you'd be so kind, we have a few more
questions for you.
At 11:56 AM 7/25/00, Lauren Weinstein wrote:
PFIR Statement on Internet Policies, Regulations, and Control
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It is our belief that the current mechanism for making many key
