[WSIS CS-Plenary] Bush admin. objects to .xxx domains

[Milton Mueller]

>>> Parminder at ITforChange.net 08/16/05 12:36 PM >>>
>What's really interesting to watch here - from the point of view of
'who
>controls global public policy' - is how will the US objections be
dealt vis
>a vis earlier objections on the same issues by other countries. 

That question has already been answered. When, in the Luxembourg
meeting, other countries (Brazil, but also Denmark I think) objected,
nothing happened. When, AFTER the July 22 Senate confirmation of David
A. Sampson and his installation as Deputy Secretary of Commerce, the US
position changed. Only then do you get a letter from GAC, only then is
it put on the front page of ICANN, only then does the Chief Executive of
ICANN, who voted for the delegation originally, change his position. 

Dr. Milton Mueller
Syracuse University School of Information Studies
http://www.digital-convergence.org
http://www.internetgovernance.org