[ncdnhc-discuss] Fwd: CPSR/CIVSOC STATEMENT ON THE ICANN AT LARGE MEMBERSHIP

[todd glassey]

I think that the intent of the 1998 Agreement is one of the key problems
with today's Internet. It paints the Internet as a public conveyance that
everyone just sort of uses... It also doesn't do much to define the methods
of which are used to pay for this technology and its deployment or more
importantly how this "global 1998 Internet model" will allow each and every
Jurisdictional Area to constrain its piece of the "Internet" with its own
operating rules and law.

In fact the 1998 agreement is more a One-World fantasy that is maybe more
about what it would have looked like if the ARPANET was made public and
extended to every point on the globe, than what the Internet is all about.

One of the things that is occurring now is that Countries are realizing that
they cannot let IEC/LEC Carriers in general run willy-nilly any which way
they want; and that to implement eBorders (a task thankfully much easier
than closing the physical borders to unauthorized traffic) that simple and
reasonable rules have to be put in place defining how the Carriers
interrelate their networks to one another.

Finally the biggest shortcoming of the 1998 accord is that it  mistakenly
assumes that the Internet is one homogeneous community and that one DNS root
and one set of rules will work for all. [insert obnoxious BUZZER sound
effect here if you like]

What could they have been smoking at the time? Dust from Xerox's Dynabook
project some 20 years prior...

Todd Glassey

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Subject: [ncdnhc-discuss] Fwd: CPSR/CIVSOC STATEMENT ON THE ICANN AT LARGE
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>
> >Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 15:47:02 -0400
> >To: civsoc at cpsr.org
> >From: civsoc at cpsr.org
> >Subject: CPSR/CIVSOC STATEMENT ON THE ICANN AT LARGE MEMBERSHIP
> >
> >
> >CPSR/CIVSOC STATEMENT ON THE ICANN AT LARGE MEMBERSHIP
> >
> >27 July 2002
> >
> >Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) participates in
> >the ICANN process via the CPSR Civil Society Democracy Project
> >(www.CivSoc.org).  CPSR/CivSoc offers the following statement about its
> >activities that relate to the At Large Membership.
> >
> >CPSR/CivSoc is participating in the At Large Organizing Committee (ALOC),
> >led by Denise Michel and with active participation of Esther Dyson and
> >other individuals.   (See www.at-large.org).  To avoid any confusion that
> >this participation might create, we wish to clarify our views on the
> >status and substantive recommendations of the ALOC.
> >
> >User representation on the ICANN board was the cornerstone of DNS
> >privatization in 1998, and to the extent that the ALOC's activities
> >contribute to the implementation of this, then CPSR/CivSoc supports those
> >activities. All efforts to implement user representation in ICANN -- be
> >they from the ALOC, the Interim Coordinating Committee
> >(www.ICANNmembers.org), the NAIS, or the ALSC - are to be commended.
> >
> >We hasten to point out that the ALOC possesses no special status to
> >represent the user in ICANN processes.  The ALOC is one voice in the
> >on-going effort to implement user representation in ICANN.  Its claim to
> >represent 500,000 users is, in our opinion, not convincing (the numbers
> >derive from one organization's claims of user representation:
> >www.cecua.org.)  Furthermore, the fact that many of the ALOC's
> >participants have little history of participation in ICANN activities
> >lessens its credibility.  Nonetheless, every effort, regardless of its
> >limitations, in support of user representation in ICANN is important and
> >useful.
> >
> >CPSR/CivSoc does not support any activities or positions of the ALOC that
> >are contrary to the terms of Internet privatization.  CPSR/CivSoc does
not
> >support relegating users to an "advisory" role, doing away with direct
> >elections, or abandoning the principle of balanced representation between
> >users and industry experts.  We note that many - and, by our tally,
most -
> >members of ALOC support direct elections of user representatives to the
> >ICANN board.
> >
> >ICANN can best gain legitimacy by implementing the terms of the 1998
> >privatization agreement.  User representation on the board and direct
> >elections are essential aspects of that.  CPSR/CivSoc's participation in
> >ALOC and other user-related activities are done in order to achieve
> >implementation of those agreements.
> >
> >###
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