ICANN is resisting U.N. attempts for control to begin for freedom to ebb on Earth's World Wide Web.

Mar. 27, 2004: #01 Political Satire/Commentary where satire is always commentary but commentary isn't always satire ™·2004.
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ICANN is resisting U.N. attempts for control to begin for freedom to ebb on Earth's World Wide Web.·

Today, a closed-door meeting at the U.N. concluded a series of meetings this week involving the discussions and symposia on the World Wide Web. Whenever U.N. bureaucracies and diplomats meet to discuss "fixing" a problem, those who favor freedom-- especially freedom of speech-- should worry. Don't forget, the U.N. is an organization that would presume to "license" reporters. It's an organization that ensconced Libya as head of its "human-rights" commission.

Therefore, there is good cause for concern about the United Nation's continuing efforts to wrest control of internet domain suffixes from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Perhaps sometime in the distant future when (if) the United Nations can boast a record in favor of free speech and liberty to match that of the United States, one might conclude that the time would have then arrived for ICANN to report to an international version of the U.S. Department of Commerce. When will the United Nation manifest such unflinching support for freedom and liberty rather than political correctness and diplomatic euphemization of anti-freedom concepts? Don't hold your breath. It's not going to happen any time soon.

This week's series of meetings and symposia marks a suitable occasion to reprise previous installments of satire/commentary about the ongoing struggle between ICANN and the United Nations. The first was on December 5, 2004, which starts below. The second was on December 8, 2003, which follows immediately after the December 5, 2003 installment.
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I think ICANN, I think ICANN... Will ICANN allow the U.N.'s control of the Web to begin?..·

The growth of the Internet Web
helps freedom advance 'stead of ebb,
so freedom demands
that government hands
do little in weaving the Web.

Reports say that soon the UN
intends to propose to begin
control of the Net
to aid and abet
the Third World's desires to get in.

Because the UN is the worstest
in helping the lastest be firstest,
to let it control
the Internet's folds,
it soon would become the Interred Net.

So ICANN¹ should tell Kofi Annan²
that if the UN won't abandon
its trigger-lock plank,
then ICANN will yank
permission to lock its ICANNon.·

ICANN to U.N., ipse dixit³-- The Net isn't broken; Don't "fix" it:
My own ipse dixit proclaims ICANN fix it.·

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.·

On December 8, 2003, the news (see articles in the Washington Times and TechNewsWorld) provided 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. However, as is self-evident from the United Nations' continuing efforts to assert control over ICANN's functions, it's going to be a long battle requiring constant vigilance by the world wide web of those of us favoring freedom.

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·Reports some time ago quoted Kofi Annan as expressing a preference for the English pronunciation of his last name to rhyme with "cannon" rather than "anon."

³·"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.

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