[IP] more on American dominance of the Internet, redux

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Gerry Faulhaber <gerry-faulhaber@mchsi.com>
Date: October 15, 2005 6:32:54 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Fw: [IP] American dominance of the Internet, redux


Yeah, I agree with Karl, but I think this ICANN dispute is largely  
irrelevant to the
US/UN/ITU governance issue.  In fact, I think the ICANN screwups are  
pretty
small potatoes compared to the damage that alternative governance  
mechanisms
could wreak.  Granted ICANN has done some pretty bonehead stuff, but  
there
is far, far worse possible...and we'll find that out to our immense  
chagrin
if the UN/ITU crowd takes over.

What concerns me most about the governance issue is that nobody is  
actually
telling us how they will do the job better.  They are simply saying they
want their finger on the button, too, and the US is being arrogant,  
blah,
blah, blah.  But none of the putative Internet controllers are  
telling us
what is being done wrong today and how they would do it better.

Gerry Faulhaber

----- Original Message -----

> From: "Karl Auerbach" <karl@cavebear.com>
> To: "Gerry Faulhaber" <gerry-faulhaber@mchsi.com>
> Cc: "David Farber" <dave@farber.net>
> Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 2:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [IP] American dominance of the Internet, redux
>
>
>
> > On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, David Farber wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I write because I ran across this recent interesting Economist  
> > > article. Perhaps IPers would find it of interest:
> > >
> > > Internet governance
> > > America rules OK
> >
> > I wrote a note about that article in my blog - My feeling what  
> > that one could not give a lot of weight to the conclusions of that  
> > article because it was based an a significant misappreciation of  
> > what the current generation of internet governance institutions  
> > are doing and not doing.
> >
> > Here's the URL to that note:
> >  http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000195.html
> >
> >  --karl--



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