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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">October 1st marks a sad day for the
Internet. With IANA Stewardship transitioning from the NTIA to the
ICANN multi-stakeholder community, the internet now is less
transparent, less democratic and less accountable.<br>
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<div style="font-weight:bold;" align="center"><font size="5">I</font><font
size="4">N</font><font size="5"> CONGRESS, J</font><font
size="4">ULY 4, 1776</font></div>
it was declared<br>
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the
pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments
are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People
to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government (...)<br>
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NTIA being part of the US Government, means, following closely the
US Declaration of Independence, that if it had become destructive
of anything at all regarding the oversight of the IANA functions,
there would have been procedures, established for 240 years, to
alter or to abolish it. <br>
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Now, with the new multi-stakeholder model in place for the
oversight of the IANA function, all this has been discarded. How
long will it take for the rest of the world to realize this? The
new IANA Stewardship is good news for all US citizens who "know",
and bad news for everybody else, mainly for those not being a US
citizen, all over the world.
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Eberhard Blocher
EAHP KG
P.O. Box 30 03 26
50773 Köln
Germany
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.eahp.com">http://www.eahp.com</a>
Tel. +49-221-9139535
Fax +49-221-2711016
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cla.tel">http://cla.tel</a>
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