IP: Business Week Breaks on ICANN

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

 From Business Week.

> > ''After all the talk over the past few years about how difficult it 
> > will be to regulate conduct on the
> > Internet,'' says David Post, a cyberlaw specialist at Temple 
> > University School of Law, ''the domain
> > name system looks like the Holy Grail, the one place where 
> > enforceable Internet policy can be
> > promulgated without any of the messy enforcement'' problems.
> >
> > Aware of these concerns, ICANN says it has no intention of using 
> > domain names as a foRm of
> > backdoor Internet regulation. But getting people to obey the law on 
> > the Net is a daunting problem. It
> > would be foolhardy to dismiss the idea that Internet addresses 
> > could be used as a lever to enforce
> > important legal rights. Managing those simple .coms and .nets is no 
> > trivial matter.

Excerpts from:
>   http://www.businessweek.com/1999/99_36/b3645101.htm