Re: [atlarge-discuss] Issues

["todd glassey" <todd.glassey@worldnet.att.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Dierker" <eric@it.com.vn>
To: <richardhenderson@ntlworld.com>
Cc: <Jkhan@MetroMgr.com>; <atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: [atlarge-discuss] Issues


> 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 unproven to date.

> 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

Boy was this wrong. What makes the Internet what it is, is the varied
peering agreements between the carriers that faciltate the operations of the
ICANN Root and Address Resolution Services, becuase without these there IS
NO INTERNET.

> >
> > 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.
> >
> > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> >
> > Yes Jkhan - "taxation without representation" indeed!
> >
> > But just a symptom of a much wider malaise.
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Richard Henderson
> >
> >
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