[At-Large] ICANN lack of will to do anythng except for the money interests

Bill Silverstein icann-list at sorehands.com
Sun Jul 6 14:04:44 EDT 2008


> From: John Levine <johnl at iecc.com>> app for the web was and is search
> engines. These days I know a lot of
> people whose home page is Google,
John, that is because because don't realize that they can change  their
'homepage'.

> and who have no idea what the difference
> is between the Google search box and the browser address box.  Domains and
I have had people do that withhh their domain name and then ask me to help
 them figure out who hacked their site because the top result is not their
web site.




> PS: FYI, the message to which you were responding was from Canada, where
> the speech laws are more like European ones than US ones.  Not everyone in
> North America grew up with the 1st amendment.
You mean there is still a first amendment in the USA?

> From: "Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com>
>
>   I and our members agree fully with your last paragraph of
> your argument entirely.  It is essentially a significant part of
> our core concerns for the past 9+ years.   ICANN hasn't
> shown that it can manage much of anything very well to date
> including it's own Domain Names, IP addresses, root servers,
> or web site and mailing lists.  Yet the ICANN leadership for

One of the best examples of the failure of ICANN to do anything that does
not promote the interests of the money sources is
http://www.icann.org/correspondence/touton-letter-to-beckwith-03sep02.htm 
which exemplifies their lack of willingness to enforce 3.7.7.2.






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