Betsy Hart: Shadowy group is taking control of Internet!
http://www.azstarnet.com/public/dnews/0623CV2.html
Imposition of taxes and other power plays. Seems like history
repeating itself and setting a dangerous precedent.
Taxation of the network and making US citizens bare
the brunt of the cost is UNACCEPTABLE PERIOD.
Increasing rates to ISP's and backbone providers is
and reverse method of taxation on the consumer in
the end for government benefit,
UNACCEPTABLE PERIOD.
Henry
This is not news at all if you read comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains. People
have been complaining about ICANN's secrecy for some time now.
Betsy Hart: Shadowy group is taking control of Internet!
http://www.azstarnet.com/public/dnews/0623CV2.html
There've been some other, less sensational articles about
this also -- and some less sensational posts about it, too.
http://stealthgeeks.net/background.html covers things pretty
well, IMHO, without resorting to exaggeration at all.
Followups elsewhere, please; this isn't operational, though
it soon will be.
---------========== J.D. Falk <jdfalk@cybernothing.org> =========---------
> "...the angels invented the Internet, so they could better eavesdrop |
> on what human beings are doing." --Andrew Greeley |
----========== http://www.cybernothing.org/jdfalk/home.html ==========----
Betsy Hart: Shadowy group is taking control of Internet!
http://www.azstarnet.com/public/dnews/0623CV2.htmlImposition of taxes and other power plays. Seems like history
repeating itself and setting a dangerous precedent.Taxation of the network and making US citizens bare
the brunt of the cost is UNACCEPTABLE PERIOD.Increasing rates to ISP's and backbone providers is
and reverse method of taxation on the consumer in
the end for government benefit,
UNACCEPTABLE PERIOD.
<flame>
Oh please! NSI is playing every one of you for saps. Follow the money.
Who is making money right now by the delay? Not ICANN. A tax? You have
got to be kidding. It is a cost to cover expenses - might be $.50, might
even $.30. Go ahead - put a cap put on the cost of running ICANN. Build a
different cost model to support the operation of ICANN. Oh wait - ARIN has
one. No one calls the fee ISPs pay ARIN - a form of taxation. Calling it
a tax is playing into NSI's hands.
Internet governance? Another nice buzzword thrown around to make people
shy away from ICANN. ICANN has nothing to do with encryption, copyright,
taxation, censorship, etc. Those who want to torpedo ICANN and to put the
whole process back by 2 years - want you to think that ICANN can and will
do all those things. Assigning domain names is administrative. Don't let
anyone convince you otherwise. You don't like cybersquatters or trademark
bandits? Take them to court. Leave ICANN (and NSI for that matter) out of
it.
</flame>
-Hank
Hank,
This is off-topic for NANOG. But, while you are not completely wrong,
you are not properly informed either. New top-level domains are NOT
strictly administrative. If they were, or the root-servers were, we'd
have had them over two years ago. Switch off your flame-thrower and come
and join the festivities on the DOMAIN-POLICY list. Dean Robb did.
I'm not sure...is that an endorement or condemnation? 
However, it *IS* the correct forum...
"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of ICANN?"
Dean Robb
Owner, PC-EASY
(757) 495-EASY [3279]
On-site computer repairs, upgrades and consultations
Lead SimOps columnist/reviewer on http://WWW.TheGamers.Net