IP: Salon articleon ICANN and Dyson

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Gunnar Helliesen"<gunnar () bitcon no>
Sent: 7/27/02 12:22:06 PM
To: "Dave Farber (E-post)"<dave () farber net>
Subject: RE: Salon articleon ICANN and Dyson

Prof. Farber,

Yes, well, The Register has its own, ahem, unique take on that interview:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26406.html


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Ex-ICANN chief spotted in low earth orbit
By Andrew Orlowski in London
Posted: 27/07/2002 at 04:07 GMT


Esther Dyson has made one of her occasional swings past Earth, with
Salon.com's Farjad Manjoo making radio contact as her low earth orbit took
her over San Francisco. 

The former ICANN chief has lost none of eccentricity on her on her voyage
through the galaxy. 

"Let's get real!," she proclaims - an alert for regular readers to take
cover, to avoid being hit by a flock of birds flying backwards. 

"I want to fix it." 

Esther weighs in on the subject of the At Large board - that's the 17-strong
body who in ICANN's original charter should now have been elected by the
public. As it is, only four posts were offered for election, and shortly
before CEO Lynn and attorney Sims jettisoned themselves in their own escape
pod, they decided to abolish the whole nasty business of elections
altogether. 

To widespread relief, Esther opines that the existing board are, in fact,
reasonable people. Only with one exception - Karl Auerbach - "...who
unfortunately has some good proposals and it's counterproductive how he goes
around trying to achieve that." 

(Look, we never said this would be easy, navigating through clouds of Esther
antimatter , and strange vortexes of nonsense.) 

"Let's get real!" she again demands. 

"I can't think of anything better than elections..." she says, before er,
dismissing the idea of elections as a "near term mechanism". Elections are a
long-term goal, you see. Just one that's rapidly disappearing over the
event-horizon. 

Are you still following us? 

Dyson last passed within radio contact in March, when, after the plan to
abolish the board had been made, she baffled observers by embellishing the
news with the message that it had been a "hard fought" triumph for
democracy. 

Esther's father, the great American physicist Freeman Dyson, once planned a
spaceship powered by nuclear rockets. 

But Esther's found her own release, free from the surly bonds of logic and
reason: a vehicle so elusive no mortal can plot its progress. We only hope
Auerbach and Gilmore can at least find a light sabre between them. ®

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