Alexis Turner wrote:
I don't want to clutter up everyone's inboxes with dozens of rants that amount to hyperventilating and lots of "IiiiEEEE's!," but if anyone would like to e-mail me off list with their thoughts on the UN's WSIS conference and why having them replace ICANN would be a good/bad thing for the Internet, I would love to hear it. I'm not looking to pick a fight or argue - I'm just honestly interested in hearing the various opinions. The issue is a lot bigger than anything I can get my head around right now, and hearing what other people have to say would help me think about it more constructively. I myself am on this list more or less "Just for kicks," or, as I prefer to think of it, "personal edification," but do note that it is possible quotes from your e-mails will make it onto a personal site that I use for my own rambling and probably incoherent research. If you don't want this, just say so. -Alexis PS: Bonus points if you actually read what they are proposing before you respond.
Hi Alexis, I followed the discussion list. I could hardly follow it. Is there a UN? To me it looks like a bunch of small and not so small dictators at the table and several rooms full of intelligent people outside. It might be interesting to give them the internet. But how should you do that? What could they do with it? Give them the root. The root operators will laughingly stand up and go away. Each of them will start running his own root on his own hardware. The internet hardware? Belongs to companies that were not allowed to join. How should all the internet operators find out what "the UN" want them to do if they dont allow them in? I dont think anything but a lot of wasted paper will come out of that meeting. Kind regards, Peter and Karin Dambier -- Peter and Karin Dambier Public-Root Graeffstrasse 14 D-64646 Heppenheim +49-6252-671788 (Telekom) +49-179-108-3978 (O2 Genion) +49-6252-750308 (VoIP: sipgate.de) +1-360-448-1275 (VoIP: freeworldialup.com) mail: peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://iason.site.voila.fr http://www.kokoom.com/iason _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf