My testimony for Today's U.S. House of Rep. Hearings

[Harold Feld]

I will be testifying today before the U.S. House of Rep. Subcom on
Telecom & the Internet and Subcom. on Commerce and Consumer
Protection today.  You can find the executive summary here:
http://www.mediaaccess.org/events/House%20Testimony%20Exec%20Sum%209-21-06.pdf

Full testimony here:
http://www.mediaaccess.org/events/House%20Testimony%20Exec%20Sum%209-21-06.pdf

For those reading, please understand this is intended for folks
operating at very high levels of generality.  I made a decision that
trying to get into anything even vaguely close to details was not
likely to be productive.  My hope is to balance the folks who will
say ICANN works just fine and doesn't need any change, and possibly
put some pressure on NTIA to force ICANN to adopt some real
accountability measures.

I should also make clear this does not purport to be testimony from
the NCUC.  It is my personal testimony and that of my organization
based on my experience with and observations of ICANN.

Harold
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ICANN will announce officially during a reception in the Shearaton Delphina (Santa Monica Boulevard), Thursday, October 1st, 2009, its "continuing responsibilities to the Internet Users globally".

wolfgang

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Von: Non-Commercial User Constituency im Auftrag von Konstantinos Komaitis
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....now this is a new legal term!!!!

- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8275679.stm

KK
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Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis,
Lecturer in Law,
GigaNet Membership Chair,
University of Strathclyde,
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