[At-Large] New gTLD implementation Consultation Session London 15 July 2009

[Jorge Amodio]

> In addition, one must ask, from whence comes this authority to be the
> internet's trademark cop?  There is no delegation of such authority from any
> government, most notably not from the US Dept of Commerce's NTIA agency,
> which, by the way, has no statutory power to endow that kind of trademark
> cop powers onto ICANN.

>From nowhere and nobody. ICANN only reason for its existence is that
we require a set of unique identifiers to keep Internet working as
a collaborative conglomeration of autonomous and heterogeneous networks.

ICANN original intent was to provide a more formal and institutional
framework for the work Jon Postel and IANA have been doing for many
years, and to facilitate creating a more open process about how this
work is done, nothing less, nothing more.

The rest is an awful amount of yada-yada that has been artificially
embedded into ICANN by a flock of crows which their only interest is
to keep profiting from the money printing machine that ICANN became
collecting fees.

BTW, being a charitable organization, how much money did ICANN
contribute on behalf of the Internet Community to charitable causes ?

Double sigh.