RE: [ICANN-EU] meeting esther dyson - a very short report

["McMeikan, Andrew" <andrew.mcmeikan@mitswa.com.au>]

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A very informative report and one that should give good cause for some
serious thinking.

In my mind if the system is going to change to a truly de-centralized one
then some infrastructure needs to be in place to achieve this.  That means
something that can not be shutdown or controlled by any government
anywhere, with all the power for changes in a distributed web of trust,
outside of legislation, tm-mark laws or UDRP action.

Does anyone have good reason why a linkage of private, corporate and
organizational networks could not be managed in this way?

If corporate wishes to abide by arbitrary rulings (they may well since
they have the lawyers) they can stick with the existing method.

But the free exchange of network addressing in a distributed manner (by
perhaps a freenet descendant) is something I think should be pursued and
would result in a truly robust and bottom up run internetwork.

I hope that Andy can make enough noise in this direction that the system
opens up a bit so that there will be one addressing scheme that serves all
instead of alternate DNS roots springing up.

- -----Original Message-----
From:	Andy Mueller-Maguhn [SMTP:andy@ccc.de]
Sent:	Wednesday, October 25, 2000 3:48 PM
To:	icann-europe@fitug.de
Subject:	[ICANN-EU] meeting esther dyson - a very short report

AMM 23 OCT 2000

somewhere inbetween i had the chance to meet esther dyson in berlin.

<snip>

But if this institution - driven now by governmental and industrial
interests - can be changed to anything based on the diversity of netizens
and citizens interests enabling a decentralized structure, that respects
different entitys, free flow of information even if this means the end of
controlling non-material goods, is a complete other question. So, for me
it
is an open question, if this is an ICANN issue.

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cause of DeCSS

Andy Mueller-Maguhn, andy@ccc.de, Postfach 64 02 34, D-10048 Berlin,
Germany
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