Ronda Hauben on Thu, 26 Sep 2002 06:58:57 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> ICANN and the DOC Can't |
The contract between ICANN and the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) was to expire on September 30, 2002. Instead of welcoming input into their process of determining if the contract should be renewed, the U.S. government announced that they were renewing the contract with ICANN for one more year. They made their announcement on September 20, 2002. What is the significance of the DOC rushing to announce their one year renewal of the ICANN contract and what is the challenge to those who are concerned about the Internet and its future? More than ever before there is a need to consider the US government activity regarding ICANN and not only focus on ICANN's failures but also on the role played by the US government in creating and then continuing to promote ICANN. See "ICANN and the DOC Can't" http://www.circleid.com/articles/2538.asp Ronda ronda@ais.org http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120 http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/other http://www.ais.org/~ronda/other Submissions due on Sepber 30, 2002 for the upcoming issue of the Amateur Computerist on the emergence of the Netizen. http://www.ais.org/~ronda/other/netizen-call.txt # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net