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IP: Re:GROUPS BEGIN PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN FOR INTERNET BOARD Edupage, 30 June 2000
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 07:58:17 -0400
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/
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