IP: Re:GROUPS BEGIN PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN FOR INTERNET BOARD Edupage, 30 June 2000

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 22:38:54 -0500 (CDT)
>From: "Adam L. Beberg" <beberg@mithral.com>
>To: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>
>
>On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Dave Farber wrote:
>
> > "Internet users need to exercise their right to vote to ensure that
> > ICANN's decisions are in the best interests of the greater
> > Internet,"
>
>It concerns me greatly that what was once a benevolent dictatorship
>under the brilliant and wise Dr. Jon Postel, is now a beurocratic
>quasi-democracy of 16 year olds without any understanding of deeply
>technical issues. Or worse, companies with everything but the interests
>of the whole in mind. Is there even the remotest possibility this is a
>good thing?
>
>Ignoring the profoundly trivial issues like if we should add .sex or
>.web to the Network Solutions monopoly first, forcing everyone to pay up
>or get squatted. Do we want "Internet users" making important decisions
>based on who kisses the most babies or has a cuter butt, rather then
>solid scientific research and debate? Will we soon have an ICANN
>president sneaking around with interns and running IP-block deals with
>crooked loans?
>
>I better shut up before my domains start turning up "lost" yet again
>and get auctioned off.
>
>- Adam L. Beberg
>   Mithral Communications & Design, Inc.
>   The Cosm Project - http://cosm.mithral.com/
>   beberg@mithral.com - http://www.iit.edu/~beberg/