The ICANN Mafia

What are your primary concerns? Can you carefully articulate them point by point? Your current articles have a "scorched earth" feel about them. Do you think it would be possible to capture your concerns using a less combative tone? I worry that people will discount your contributions given the agressive timbre. Perhaps we could chat about the most effective way to communicate your concerns on Talk:The_ICANN_Mafia? -- BrandonCsSanders 21:30, 19 Dec 2005 (EST)

• Vint Cerf
• Esther Dyson
• Joe Sims
• Stuart Lynn
• Robert Shaw
• Carl Bildt
• Alejandro Pisanty
• Philip Sheppard
• Jonathan Cohen
• Marilyn Cade
• Ken Stubs
• Andrew McLaughlin
• Don Heath
• Mike Roberts
• Nancy Victory
• Hans Kraaijenbrink
• Kent Crispin
• Denise Michel
• Louis Touton

ICANN has the ISOC-nurtured coalition of trademark and intellectual property interests going for it. It has IBM’s and AT&T’s total commitment as focused on the GIP. It has Esther Dyson staking her career as advocate of the largest IT companies in the world that she can deliver it ICANN as a done deal and a fully legitimized enforcer of their monopoly interests and their desperate need to prevent competition from destabilizing upstart start-ups. Under the tight control of Vinton Cerf, Michael Roberts, Esther Dyson, John Patrick and Joe Sims, ICANN is positioned so that the American corporate dinosaurs that ignored the Internet revolution, the rise of the stupid network and the Internet Protocol (IP) Insugency the longest can now use their financial and political muscle to build a regulatory structure to protect their interests. Shrewdly playing off of the widespread dislike of NSI, the ICANNites have put together a structure of enormous complexity. The ICANN process is so complex and convoluted that not more than 100 outsiders in the entire world have followed it closely enough to understand in any detail the nature of undemocratic top down fix applied to the internet by Patrick, Cerf, Dyson, Roberts and company. Given Jerry Berman’s long time close relationship to Farber (dating from the founding of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 1990) and CDT’s (Center for Democracy and Technology) corporate telecom sponsors, it is not surprising to see CDT endorse the ICANN coup. Given the corporate elite behind the Markle Foundation it was also no surprise to see Markle sign on as supporter of the now meaningless process of recruiting ICANN members.

The Aspen Institute

> > http://www.aspeninst.org/c&s/ipp.html > > Back Row: Kilnam Chon Korea Advanced Institute of Science Technology, Erez > > Kalir Rapporteur, Niels Christian Nielsen Catenas, Ltd., Clay Shirky > > Writer and Consultant, Elliot Maxwell The Aspen Institute, Paul Verhoef European > > Commission, Adam Ciongoli United States Department of Justice, Jim Steinberg > > The Brookings Institution, Amanda Mills The Aspen Institute, Yochai Benkler > > New York University, Ira Magaziner SJS, Incorporated Middle Row: Mike > > Nevens McKinsey & Company, Inc., Stephanie Keller-Bottom Nokia, Lori > > McLean Nortel Networks, David Johnson Wilmer, Cutler, & Pickering, Mark MacCarthy > > VISA U.S.A., Inc., Izumi Aizu Asia Network Research, Inc., Ramsen > > Betfarhad House Energy & Commerce Committee, Zoë Baird The Markle Foundation, Tara > > Lemmey LENS Ventures, Esther Dyson EDventure Holdings, Inc. Front Row: > > Charlie Firestone The Aspen Institute, Bill Whyman The Precursor Group, > > Vint Cerf WorldCom, Keith Teare Real Names Corporation, Link Hoewing Verizon > > Communications Roger Cochetti VeriSign, David Nassef Pitney Bowes, Inc.