[ICANN-EU] Fw: "ICANN is a serious flaw at the heart of the Internet"

["JIM FLEMING" <jfleming@anet.com>]

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From: JIM FLEMING <jfleming@anet.com>
To: Jim Dixon <jdd@vbc.net>
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Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 7:35 AM
Subject: "ICANN is a serious flaw at the heart of the Internet"


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jim Dixon <jdd@vbc.net>
> <snip>
> >
> > ICANN is a serious flaw at the heart of the Internet, a point of
> > acute vulnerability.  What everyone must do at all levels is build
> > work-arounds.  Also, paradoxically, anything that can be done to
> > weaken ICANN's claims of global authority would strengthen it to
> > the benefit of the Internet.  If ICANN were to fall back to IANA's
> > position, if it were to rely upon voluntary cooperation instead of
> > legally binding contracts, the politicians and bureaucrats would
> > lose interest in it -- and it could become a focal point for global
> > cooperation instead of global coercion.
> >
>
> Jim,
>
> Of course ICANN is a "serious flaw", but it is NOT at the "heart"
> of the Internet. The people involved do not even use the Internet.
> One of the main people prides herself on NOT having a computer
> at home. The Internet is growing from the work of people who are
> ONLINE.
>
> In other cases, ICANN is selling IPv6 to people, despite the huge
> privacy problem. Clueless people will buy into having their
> PC hardware ID or phone number encoded in each packet. People
> with a clue will realize that the 128 bits can be used in IPv8 mode
> and split into two 64 bit fields. The left 64 bits carry a routing address
> and the right 64 bits carry the IPv8 address managed by one of the
> thousands of TLD authorities, NOT ICANN.
>
> @@@ http://www.gip.org/publications/papers/draftberlinworkshop.asp
>
> "Security, Privacy, and Reliability of the Next Generation Internet"
> November 6-7, 2000
> Berlin, Germany
> *Attendance is by Invitation Only*
>
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
>
> We could go on...but the bottom line is that ICANN is out of touch
> and not a threat to the Internet...and what is really interesting
is...they
> know it...
> ...and what is more interesting is...they like that...they do not want to
be
> ONLINE...
>
> Jim Fleming
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