International Herald Tribune: "On Friday night, Mr. Twomey, who flew 20 hours to Geneva from a meeting in Vietnam to take part in a preparatory session for this week's United Nations summit meeting on Internet issues, was escorted to the exit of the meeting room by guards after participants suddenly decided to exclude observers."
Dr. Twomey's response: "At ICANN, anybody can attend meetings, appeal decisions or go to ombudsmen, and here I am outside a U.N. meeting room where diplomats — most of whom know little about the technical aspects — are deciding in a closed forum how 750 million people should reach the Internet. I am not amused." Me either.
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Ring the GAC...Around the Neck
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Re: Ring the GAC...Around the Neck
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Tom
on Tue 09 Dec 2003 12:07 AM PST | Profile | Permanent Link
I find it almost more maddening to have general attendance allowed and then logical submissions ignored. Dr. Twomey simply saw a different perspective on the same tactic which ICANN engages in itself, in my view of course. I may not be happy with the notion of the U.N. taking things over but ICANN is not going to score points with me by pointing to a different version of their same tactics and crying foul. Those 750 million net.connected people are hosed if either one of these entities gets/continues control. Then again, I don't know that I can imagine an impartial and productive body managing such a valuable resource without prejudice. Sad. Or perhaps I have grown too cynical.
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