Re: ICANN Reform - a proposal

[Lars Marowsky-Bree <]

On 2002-03-13T20:54:14,
   Jim Dixon jdd@localhost said:

> > ICANN might loose its orientation to the reality and this is very
> > dangerous.
> There is little evidence suggesting that ICANN has ever had much
> connection to the real world.  What's important for RIPE at this time
> is to apply steady pressure on ICANN, to remind ICANN that the real
> world exists.  If people remain very calm and very skeptical, it is
> just possible that at some time in the future ICANN might become
> useful.

What I personally deem to be _the_ most challenging task for RIPE and the
other RIRs is to ensure that whatever legal issues with regard to trademarks
and whatever ICANN comes up with does NOT impact technical operation of the
network.

Frankly, I don't care much about the rest as long as I can safely ignore it.


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée lmb@localhost

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