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Subject: IP: a comment on Gilmore: ICANN Must Go (good insights)
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From: Richard Forno <rforno@infowarrior.org>
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 08:50:27 -0400
To: <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
Subject: Gilmore: ICANN Must Go (good insights)
>From Salon -- there is an interesting interview withi Jon Gilmore over
ICANN, along with some interesting insights on the DNS circus these days:
www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/07/02/gilmore/print.html
From your editor and from Jon's friend and thesis advisor. It is
unreasonable for someone with independent means like Gilmore to say "Jon
didn't have the spine..." His University, his organization ISI made no
attempt to help him. What was said to him was a threat to end his career
(which he loved) and no one with the resources and connections (both of
which USC and ISI had) defended him. Jon had no resources except his love
for the net.
Dave
"How to get to that solution is the problem. Benevolent dictatorship by Jon
Postel would have gotten us there, but Jon was unwilling to stand up to
pressure from the White House. Ira Magaziner threatened him ("You'll never
work on the Internet again") and he didn't have the spine to tell Ira to
take a flying leap. But Jon's initial design would have expanded to dozens
of TLDs long before ICANN, and increased them by 50 or 100 a year until
demand slacked off. "
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