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To: antiRepublicrat
I prefer private-sector control, of course. But I do think that the common people need a voice through, although not through government.

You might find this article at TechNewsWorld interesting :

Paul Twomey, the president of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, found out what it feels like to be voiceless. On Friday night, Twomey, who flew 20 hours to Geneva from a meeting in Vietnam to take part in a preparatory session for this week's United Nations summit meeting on Internet issues, was escorted to the exit of the meeting room by guards after participants suddenly decided to exclude observers.

The move underscores the wrath of countries that for years have been unhappy with what they perceive as their voicelessness over how the Internet is run and over U.S. ownership of key Internet resources. It also foretells the level of criticism that both the U.S. government and the Internet Corporation, or ICANN, may face at the UN meeting, one of the largest gatherings ever of high-level government officials, business leaders and nonprofit organizations to discuss the Internet's future.

The head of ICANN said this :

At ICANN, anybody can attend meetings, appeal decisions or go to ombudsmen, and here I am outside a UN meeting room where diplomats most of whom know little about the technical aspects are deciding in a closed forum how 750 million people should reach the Internet. I am not amused.

7 posted on 12/11/2003 7:30:33 AM PST by af_vet_rr
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To: af_vet_rr
I just posted a thread about that. Sick, itsn't it.
8 posted on 12/11/2003 7:52:44 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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