IP: Re: Rocky Start to Debate Over Public Role in Internet

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>cc: lauren@pfir.org, neumann@pfir.org
>Subject: Re: IP: Re: Rocky Start to Debate Over Public Role in Internet
>Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 07:25:01 -0700
>From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
>
>Hmmm.  So the latest idea from ICANN regarding the at-large board members
>is to require voters to have a domain name as well as an e-mail address,
>and to charge a "membership" fee to be allowed to vote.
>
>In other words, you need to be a "landowner" and pay a "poll tax" too!
>Well, nobody can accuse ICANN of not sticking with time-tested
>voting concepts.
>
>It should be increasingly clear that despite the best and generally
>well-intentioned efforts of the participants, the construct which
>is ICANN is increasingly like a skyscraper being built on soft ground
>-- the foundation and history of the structure is inadequate to the
>task now at hand.
>
>The documents:
>
>    PFIR Proposal for a Representative Global Internet Policy Organization
>    http://www.pfir.org/statements/proposal
>
>and
>
>    PFIR Statement on Internet Policies, Regulations, and Control
>    http://www.pfir.org/statements/policies
>
>discussed this matter in considerable depth.  The continuing unfolding
>of events only seems to strengthen the arguments contained therein.
>
>--Lauren--
>Lauren Weinstein
>lauren@pfir.org or lauren@vortex.com or lauren@privacyforum.org
>Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org
>Co-Founder, Fact Squad - http://www.factsquad.org
>Moderator, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com
>Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy



For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/