Re: [ICANN-EU] Interview with ICANN director Helmut Schink

[Armin Herbert <Armin.Herbert@gmx.net>]

Hello all,


On 12-Nov-00 Gerhard Wendebourg wrote:

> One of the ways is of course the etablishing and publishing of
> alternate root-servers:
> if the At Large Community (?!) decides to support them instead of
> dealing with an ICANN-Administration, where a user-participation is
> not really intended, maybe the day will come, when the ICANN looks at
> an growing paralell (alternate) universe, that is no more object to
> their administrating. We would so have an
> ICANN-commercial-Internet-Community on one side and on the other an At
> Large-Net-Citizen-Community from people, that are ruling and
> administrating themselves.
> If things like this are really on the way, the ICANN might take a new
> look on the situation and think, that Users / At Large-Members are
> worth, to have some regards to.

I agree with this point of view and I'd like to add the remark that, if I
did understand him right in his statement (*), AMM thought of a solution
like this - several communities co-existing on the net, with different
"manners" and defined by their tlds. The difference is that this
solution only needs some insight.

Cite from AMMs statement (*):

"Also, auch den Krawattis ihre eigenen Räume. Da können Sie dann
Markenrecht spielen (global nicht einheitlich, aber egal), sich
gegenseitig aufgrund unterschiedlichen Verständnisses von
Meinungsfreiheitsrechten verklagen oder sich einfach in Wohlgefallen
auflösen.
Solange Sie andere Kulturen akzeptieren, ist das alles ok. Ich bemüh mich
ja auch, wirklich. Damit das funktioniert mit dem Nebeneinander."

(quick translation: Thus, also the tie carriers their own spaces. There
they can play trademark law (without a world-wide uniform law, but who
cares), due to different understandings of the liberty of opinion rights
sue themselves or simply disappear in well-being.
As long as they accept other cultures, that's ok. I'll also try, really.
So that it works with the parallel existance.)


Perhaps it would be better for them to accept this point of view now, not
after months or years of "class struggle".



(*) - http://www.datenreisen.de/Aktuell/Regierungserklaerung.html (German)



Armin.

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Armin Herbert, red.H Editorial Office