On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 14:08, todd glassey wrote: > > > > > > > ----- 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. And if there weren't end-users, the Internet wouldn't be where it is today. That was J. Khan's point. Sure, you might have some minor internetworking between a few businesses, but that'd be the extent of it. The Web is ultimately what made the Internet important. The Web made the Internet more than a scientific and military curiosity. Web content became important to end-users. End-users have always been important to business, thus the Web became more important to business. The feedback loop is obvious. If Anne and Joe hadn't been surfing the 'Net back in '94, you and I wouldn't be posting on this list and ICANN would never have existed. > > > > > > 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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