[ncdnhc-discuss] A statement on the ICANN "reform" proposal

[Dave Crocker]

At 12:21 PM 2/25/2002 -0500, Milton Mueller wrote:
>There is a basic contradiction here: if Internet governance is going to take
>place via an intergovernmental regime, why start with the existing ICANN?


Excellent question, because the answer is that one should not start with 
the existing ICANN and, in fact, no one is.

Your note nicely highlights your continued failure to appreciate that ICANN 
is not intended to do Internet governance and that it has not been trying 
to do Internet governance.

ICANN has been trying to administer some parametric information (names and 
numbers) essential to the operation of the Internet.

Big difference.

d/


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