Hi Eberhard. You say: 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 Can you give a hint on why do you believe that? In particular, being myself a non-US citizens, I don't understand how US Government withdrawal from what was only the right of veto to changes to the DNS Root will diminish my power and rights. Cheers, Roberto Da: euro-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:euro-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] Per conto di Eberhard Blocher Inviato: domenica 2 ottobre 2016 07:09 A: euro-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org Oggetto: Re: [EURO-Discuss] Announcement on IANA Stewardship Transition (Rinalia Abdul Rahim) 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. IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 it was declared 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 (...) 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. 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. Eberhard Blocher EAHP KG P.O. Box 30 03 26 50773 Köln Germany http://www.eahp.com Tel. +49-221-9139535 Fax +49-221-2711016 http://cla.tel