[atlarge-discuss] Re: FC: Jim DeLong: Tech industry, prisoner of K Street? - More of ICANN's failure...

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Declan and all,

  Thank You for posting this!  Thank you James for writing this article.
Well done!

  To me and many of our [INEGroup] members as well as a growing
number of existing ICANN participants, your article James, shows
clearly yet another reason why ICANN has not only failed, but has
actually helped in some ways to create.  Governments, especially
my government (USG) has been pushed by constituents from
various states to aid or find ways to address ICANN's shortcomings,
which are many, varied and seemingly ever increasing.  Hence
governments now are getting more and more heavily involved
at all levels...

Declan McCullagh wrote:

> ---
> Subject: Prisoners of K Street
> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:36:54 -0500
> From: "James V. Delong" <JDeLong@cei.org>
> To: "Declan McCullagh (E-mail)" <declan@well.com>
>
>   Declan -
> Re your piece this morning.
> Best,
> Jim
>
>   http://www.cei.org/utils/printer.cfm?AID=1923
>
> ---
>
>     Prisoners of K Street
>     UpDates
>     by James V. DeLong
>     November 1, 2000
>
>                              From the October/November issue of CEI UpDate
>
>     Recently I was talking with Roger Cochetti, VP of Network Solutions
>     and experienced observer of the high tech scene. "The Internet is at a
>     fork," he said. "Over the next couple of years it could be confirmed
>     in its existence as a free-market, free-wheeling, chaotic, fount of
>     imaginative innovation and multiplying value. Or it could go down the
>     road taken by broadcasting and telephone, becoming regulated, stodgy,
>     hostile to technical progress, and lawyer-driven."
>
>     These comments are serious. A couple of years ago, members of Congress
>     boasted that they knew enough to keep their hands off the Internet.
>     They must have lost some brain cells since, because in the current
>     session over 400 bills were introduced to govern the Internet in one
>     way or another. Congress is even adopting the device of sticking
>     mandates into appropriations bills, without hearings or real thought.
>     You want to require all schools and libraries that get federal funds
>     to impose filtering? No problem-insert it into in an appropriations
>     bill.
>
> [...]
>
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