[At-Large] [Fwd: [alerts] ICANN News Alert -- Vint Cerf Says: ICANN Needs You!]

[Wendy Seltzer]

This mis-quote or misstatement captures it all:

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Subject: 	[alerts] ICANN News Alert -- Vint Cerf Says: ICANN Needs You!
<http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-07may07.htm>
> In an interview on the subject — posted to the ICANN website, the video
> site YouTube as well as his employer's Google Video website — Cerf
> stressed that it is "difficult to underestimate the importance of ICANN"
> because it is "responsible for policy with regard to certain technical
> aspects of the Internet". 

Yes, in an ideal world, ICANN would be so small it would be difficult to
understate its importance.  Unfortunately those with business interests
in it or in businesses it touches have quite successfully made it much
larger.

--Wendy

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Wendy Seltzer -- wendy at seltzer.org
Visiting Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute
Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
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