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GLOBAL SENSE (97)

VOICES from the DNS "Committees of Correspondence". . A Primer on Network Governance.........

. . These late 1997 statements from players in the DNS debate originally were compiled as a report for Esther Dyson. The timing is curious.
. . After the generic TLD coup had been stopped by protests, after the White House had replied with its Green Paper and its White Paper proposals for Internet privatization, in the months before ICANN began, Ms. Dyson visited Denver for a book signing. After the crowd left, I asked her views on DNS issues (we'd done an interview in 1996). Her mind had been on Eastern Europe, so I offered to help bring her up to speed on the issues and players in the DNS email discussion lists, the modern "committees of correspondence" again fomenting freedom.
. . Rather then try to select from thousands of posted messages, I invited vocal representatives from each DNS camp to contribute a short statement for me to bundle and email to her. I do not know if or how the complied report influenced her fateful decision to chair ICANN's board. After more than a year in the hotseat, she redeemed herself by resigning.
. . The good news for you, now, is that the varied media visions voiced in these collected statements remain an excellent primer on the core issues in network governance today. Read and learn.
> Esther Dyson Interview
... High-level conversation about media
... social issues, as valid today as when
... the interview was conducted in 1996.

Governance Resources
These 1997 links, updated in 1999, will be updated again as time allows. As near as I can tell, all these links are still good, and the players are still active.

• DNS Links - For Self Education
• DNS Players - Movers & Shakers
• gTLD Articles - News Reporting

For more up-to-date information on DNS issues and ICANN, please jump to the "Truth Squad Links."
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