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ICANN to U.N., ipse dixit: The Net isn't broken-- Don't "fix" it:
My own ipse dixit proclaims ICANN fix it.·
(Footnotes for viewers unfamiliar with legal and internet jargon: ICANN¹; ipse dixit².)
Reports say that ICANN received
'til 2005 a reprieve
from slow strangulation
by miscreant nations
who'd rule how the Web we should weave.
Proponents of UN control
on weaving the Internet's folds
resemble exhorters
to license "reporters"
by standards their governments mold.
It's not since our first-most Amendment
against free-expression infringement
that freedom received
such help to proceed
as that from the Wide-Web's invention.
Since using the Web may elicit
what tyrants perceive as illicit,
we can't simply by-stand
but must echo ICANN:
When something ain't broken, don't "fix" it.·
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Today's news (see articles in the Washington Times and TechNewsWorld) provides grounds for short-term optimism for those who (correctly) perceive proposals by some UN delegations for the United Nations to assume regulatory control over the worldwide web as a serious threat to freedom of communication.
¹·ICANN (pronounced eye-can) is the acronym for The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). It's the non-profit corporation that was formed to assume responsibility for the IP address space allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system management functions previously performed under U.S. Government contract by IANA and other entities. Here's the site: http://www.icann.org/.
²·"Ipse dixit" is a Latin phrase used by lawyers in the context of determining admissibility of expert opinions. The gist of the phrase in that context is that a court is not bound to permit introduction of conclusions expressed by an expert merely on the basis of his credentials (i.e., a conclusion expressed by an expert is not rendered reliable (and, hence, admissible as evidence) merely because "he says it's so." Instead, the rules of evidence oblige the court to determine whether the data upon which the expert relies establish a reliable connection to the conclusion proffered by the expert. Here, I'm using "ipse dixit" in a somewhat broader sense to represent an assertion of a conclusion supported by logic and human experience.
--Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.·
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