Re: [atlarge-discuss] FYI: [CNET] ICANN under Twomey to continue policy focus

[Eric Dierker <eric@hi-tek.com>]

Life, liberty, freedom, happiness and privacy seem to be left out of this 
statement. Funny thing these basic fundamental human rights that should be 
promoted by the Internet.  What is a Regime, as opposed to governance?
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>>From NewsScan Daily http://www.newsscan.com
> 
> NEW ICANN CHIEF TO CONTINUE POLICY FOCUS
> Succeeding Stuart Lynn as CEO of the often-controversial Internet
> Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), in-coming chief
> Paul
> Twomey says that in addition to focusing on technical coordination, the
> organization will also have to continue its efforts to deal with the
> policy
> issues such as intellectual property, privacy, and law enforcement:
> "The
> consequences of those technical issues flow into other arenas, like
> intellectual property, consumer protection, and privacy, potentially
> even
> into commercial relationships between infrastructure providers. The law
> enforcement issues are potentially issues like identification for Whois
> databases (which list information on domain name owners),
> identification of
> those people who are committing computer crimes, (and) ensuring that
> financial scams don't take place on the Internet." Twomey, an
> Australian,
> has been a consultant and government bureaucrat. (CNet News.com 19 Mar
> 2003)
> http://news.com.com/2100-1028-993390.html
> 
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