[At-Large] 300 million people have spoken with one voice "WE DON'T NEED ICANN"

[Yassin Mshana]

My attention was drawn by the statement below:"I very proud of the Chines government. They took charge of their internet.
They made it their business to understand the technology. While other
governments helped ICANN build a bureaucracy - the Chinese gave them the
finger. Thats three hundred million fingers people."It seems to me that there a need to realign individual beliefs in the roles and responsibilities of each party before we move forward. China can and has the right to do whatever deem good to China. That is the natural right each individual entity has and should be respected.
There are lessons to be learnt from what China has done  (applause!!) to further develop the global facility in the form of the Internet. 
China has to outreach its massive population and that is what has happened. 
The notion that they want to side step is not a coinstructive one and tends to create an issue in our eyes.
China has a GAC and member at the ICANN Board not for China only but for the Internet community (or was as far as I can remember)
Finger pointing may sink the boat if all hands were to be on deck.
One has to look further and in 360 degrees before pointing a finger (oops I am harsh here!)
My few observations so far
Yassin
> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:29:37 -0400
> From: baptista at publicroot.org
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org
> Subject: [At-Large] 300 million people have spoken with one voice "WE DON'T	NEED ICANN"
> 
> When I see ICANN supporters introduce the misguided argument on the "REAL"
> root I know were making progress.
> 
> So - who here can see the Chinese National TLD system?  Who can surf to
> Peking University at its official web site address used extensively in china
> 
> http://北京大学.中国/ <http://xn--1lq90ic7fzpc.xn--fiqs8s/>
> 
> The above URL works for me.  Is there any other person here on the
> governance or atlarge lists who can surf to that working URL?
> 
> I very proud of the Chines government.  They took charge of their internet.
> They made it their business to understand the technology.  While other
> governments helped ICANN build a bureaucracy - the Chinese gave them the
> finger.  Thats three hundred million fingers people.
> 
> The TLD system in China was established as far back as 2003 with the
> assistance of i-dns - which also runs a root seen in most of Asia and
> developed a good portion of the tecnology used for IDN.  ICANN had nothing
> to do with it.
> 
> ICANN is a fools paradise.  No one is happy with ICANN.  I recommend
> governments don't end up dependent on ICANN.  If you want secure
> infrastructure - NATIONALIZE YOUR ROOT. Create your own TLD infrastructure
> that owes no allegiance to ICANN or the U.S. government.
> 
> That was my advice to the DOC.
> 
> http://www.ntia.doc.gov/comments/2009/dnstransition/060.pdf
> 
> If its good for China and America - it's good for you countries people too.
> 
> regards
> joe baptista
> 
> 
> 
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> Joe Baptista
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