Re: [ICANN-EU] First steps first...

["Jeanette Hofmann" <jeanette@medea.wz-berlin.de>]

> > -  do you really think that you will have icann giving us a site
> >     on their machine and to have people beleive that the site is
> >     independant?
> 
> Why would they have to give us a site "on their machine"?  All I'm
> talking about is A and possibly MX records in their zone file.  (And no,
> I didn't ask so far.) Hosting of such web sites could be done
> independently on different organizations' machines.  I'm quite sure that
> FITUG would offer ressources for this, for instance.
> 
> Additionally, I don't think that having a host name within the
> icann.org domain would have any negative effect on the sites' or
> lists independence - every list is as independent as its subscribers
> are.

I recall a recent interview with Esther Dyson where she pointed out 
that ICANN has to check with laywers for every bit of information they 
intend to publish on the ICANN site. The not-for-profit status of 
ICANN, she said, has turned out to be a bigger obstacle as expected. 
Is it likely that we would run into the same problem if we asked ICANN 
to host or announce something that has been set up ALM? 

jeanette