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



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