Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990126004951.0184b220@mail.monmouth.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 00:49:51 -0500 From: Wilbur Streett <mailto:WStreett@MAIL.MONMOUTH.COM> Subject: Re: Underestimating Wired Africa To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
At 02:46 PM 1/25/99 -0400, Kerry Miller wrote: >As for ICANN -- a (non-profit) corporate body designated to 'govern' the
>net, operating with major input from other (for-profit) corporate
>'stakeholders,' and without serious governmental oversight -- it is in a
>very weak position to counteract any such tendency, even if 'at large'
>members (whatever that category turns out to mean) try to argue that it
>should.
I thought that ICANN was supposed to only be responsible for the DNS and Internet registration services.. If that is the case, then I really don't care.
On the other hand, if they act like the W3C has been acting, playing to corporate interests and allowing the various players to promote their own PATENTED proprietary technology as Internet Standards, then I have a real problem.
Wilbur
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