RE: [icann-europe] .kids or .kids.us?

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

At 14:49 4/07/01 -0700, Roeland Meyer wrote:
> > From: Wolfgang Kleinwächter [mailto:wolfgang.medienstadt@okay.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 8:44 AM
>
> > Dear Volker,
>
>Dear Wolfgang,
>
> > a good question which leads directly to the legal status of
> > ICANN. When I
> > saw the news on .kids my first reaction was that this could become an
> > interesting case to clarify whether ICANN is out of control of the US
> > government or not.
>
>You start with a fundimental flaw. The ICANN doesn't control what goes into
>the root-zone. The US department of Commerce does. The ICANN ONLY makes
>recommendations. That the DOC choses to listen, is accidental. From that,
>the Internet is still under US control. Any other interpretation is
>self-delusional.

Hi Roeland,

Even though strictly speaking you are correct and the Root is still firmly 
in control of the US DoC, Wolfgang's point is that the DoC may prefer to 
quietly follow ICANN's recommendations rather than see confrontational new 
lawmaking turn the clock back on the whole idea of having an ICANN that 
sets policy for new TLDs with input from the global stakeholder community.


Whichever it is, these congressmen and those who support them do advance 
the moment of truth about what ICANN really is or what it is going to be.



--Joop Teernstra LL.M.--
the Cyberspace Association and
the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
Elected representative.
http://www.democracy.org.nz/idno/


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