Re: [atlarge-discuss] Issues

[Eric Dierker <eric@it.com.vn>]

The work begins and ends in places like this group.
but the hard work is in the field bringing more into the fold.
This is a grass roots concept that works well on paper but is difficult in 
the field.

Sincerely,
Eric

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jkhan <Jkhan@MetroMgr.com>
> 
>>it's called: Taxation without
>>Representation.
> 
> Yes indeed.
> 
> ICANN's main source of revenue? People who buy domain names (and ICANN
> want to increase the ICANN tax on each domain name!)
> 
> Representation for those people? Nil
> 
> Moreover, what makes the Internet what it is? All the people who use it
> 
> Representation of those people? Nil
> 
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> 
> In a democratic culture, this lack of accountability to the people who
> finance you, and who you are set up to serve, is unacceptable to
> right-thinking people.
> 
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> 
> What we see in the spontaneous expansion of the Internet is a new
> culture, with much more emphasis on co-operation between people and
> groups, and more a "bottom-up" impulse which subverts monolithic
> structures and the old world.
> 
> What we see in ICANN is a mindset which is stuck in the old, and tries
> to impose a patriarchal hierarchy from the top. It is so out of step as
> to seem bizarre.
> 
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> 
> Yes Jkhan - "taxation without representation" indeed!
> 
> But just a symptom of a much wider malaise.
> 
> regards
> 
> Richard Henderson
> 
> 
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