Andrew McLaughlin wrote: > > (Marina del Rey, CA) -- The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and > Numbers (ICANN) announced today that it had tentatively reached a set of > agreements with the U.S. Department of Commerce and Network Solutions, Inc. > (NSI), to resolve outstanding differences among the three parties. <snip> > "Our next step is > to consider the input of the engineers, businesses, academics, individual > users and other interested parties that make up the worldwide > Internet. When have you ever considered the input of the users? <snip> > "Today's agreements signal the end of the months of uncertainty which have > limited ICANN's ability to address its responsibilities," said Mike Roberts, > ICANN's Interim President & CEO. "Subject to the comments of the global > Internet community, the staff and I look forward to working with the Board > and the community to implement these agreements." You mean "subject to the ignored comments of the global Internet community", don't you, Mr. Roberts? ============================================================ Michael Sondow I.C.I.I.U. http://www.iciiu.org Tel. (718)846-7482 Fax: (603)754-8927 ============================================================
