[FYI] "overcoming ICANN"

[Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>]

<http://www.pfir.org/statements/icann>

David J. Farber
Peter G. Neumann
Lauren Weinstein

March 18, 2002

Overcoming ICANN: Forging Better Paths for the Internet

An Open Letter to the Global Internet Community
  

[...] ICANN's lack of meaningful representation, and its continuing 
pattern of drastic and seemingly arbitrary structural and policy 
changes (among other shortcomings), have created an unstable and 
suspicion-ridden environment that is detrimental to the interests of 
the vast majority of Internet users around the world. The resulting 
overly politicized situation not only threatens the stability of the 
Internet itself, but also invites drastic and undesirable 
interventions by a variety of vested interests. [...] This is not to 
cast aspersions on the efforts of any individuals involved with 
ICANN in the past or present. Rather, we feel that ICANN has failed 
as an organization, and that the amount of "bad blood" and 
institutional "baggage" it carries doom "reform" efforts within the 
organization itself to ineffectiveness at best. We come to this 
conclusion reluctantly, since in the past we have considered that 
there might be an appropriate continuing role of some sort for 
ICANN. Unfortunately, this is no longer possible. [...]


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Thomas Roessler                        <roessler@does-not-exist.org>

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