RE: [ALSC-Forum] A query

[Bruce Young]

As far as I can tell, the actual ALSC is is private club.  This forum
(although I don't think it was intended for this purpose by ICANN!) has
emerged as the only voice the members of the At-Large community have to air
our concerns about the anti-democratic activities of the ICANN board to
date, and our thoughts about how the At-Large should be supported within
ICANN, hoping that something will come of it.  But so far, the only agendas
being served appear to be those of the sitting board members, who, as best
we can tell, are attempting to shanghai control of the INternet on behalf of
large corporate interests.  Many of us in this forum find this behavior
unacceptable (to say the least!), and have so far been frustrated in our
attempts to get the press to recognize this as an issue of Internet users'
attempt to exercise their self-determination rights over a public resource
that we all will increasingly rely on in the future for communication,
education, entertainment and commerce (and many of us funded the creation of
with our tax dollars!); versus powerful corporate interests trying to wrest
total control of it in the name of profit.

Bruce Young
Portland, Oregon
byoung651@home.com
http://members.home.net/byoung651/index.html


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-forum@www.atlargestudy.org
[mailto:owner-forum@www.atlargestudy.org]On Behalf Of Chirag Patnaik
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 6:22 AM
To: ALSC Forum
Subject: [ALSC-Forum] A query



How does one sign up to the ALSC, or is participatin in this forum
sufficient?

Chirag

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