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

[Milton Mueller]

>>> rguerra at lists.privaterra.org 08/16/05 12:50 PM >>>
>> We should not stand by and let this happen. Are you willing to join
CS
>> efforts to prepare a statement opposing this?

>You as a US citizen, can complain to your congress person (senator  
>Clinton, if i'm not mistaken) and see if you can get her to care  
>about the issue.

A very disappointing, equivocal response, Robert. You say, "it's a US
problem, you take care of it." Thanks. But I and other IGP people have
been saying for several years now that unilateral US control of the
global DNS is everyone's problem. It's sad that you don't understand
that. 

I can tell you this: what happens regarding this issue in ICANN will
have far more influence over the future of Internet governance than
anything that is going to happen in Geneva in September. Whether a Forum
is created or not is trivial compared to this. And if the US, via GAC,
succeeds in opening the door to unstructured, unbounded, informal and
purely political interventions by national governments in any decision
made by ICANN, then the real negotiations will take place in GAC, not in
WSIS, completely out of view, and the WGIG Report calls for changes in
US control of the root will be rendered utterly irrelevant. 

You as a Canadian citizen, can complain to your representatives, too,
btw.