Why oh why can I never ignore your flamebait ;-/ On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:10 PM, parminder <parminder@itforchange.net> wrote:
good many things ICANN does, it does quite alright. So whats my problem with ICANN? Well, it is at two levels.
One, I keep trying to figure out who really is in charge of most of the things on the Internet? I am afraid many are going to jump with the reply - people or internet users, which is simply not true. It is true that the Internet was once a network of tens of thousands of networks, and one could assume some kind of 'democracy' and diffusion of power vis a vis the Internet. Today Internet is largely the domain of a few mega-companies (even more so on the mobile Internet).
Do Google or Yahoo decide who ITforChange connects to? no, you do. So, it is these
companies that are largely in control of the Internet,
simply erroneous. which is not
something I like very much (even less than I may like ICANN :) ). So I really want some kind of good democratic global governance for IG.
and some of us want good democratic local and regional IG.
But the question remains, why I dont like ICANN so much.
Because it is a pioneering model of a new form of global governance which I am afraid will spread to other aspects of Internet governance, and then, I am even more afraid, perhaps even to non-Internet related global issues. The problems with the global governance model that ICANN is pioneering are:
1. It considers it OK that the biggest power in the world, the US gov, has complete veto on all issues, and is largely able to set the overall political vision and agenda.
you have to know that this statement is completely untrue on its face. Please document this if you disagree! -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel