>>> Carlos Afonso <[log in to unmask]> 06/30/05 4:12 PM >>> >the USA's hand on the root zone file is just a small bit of the entire >governance realm being discussed by the WGIG. Frankly, it is the only part the WGIG has any real hope of changing in the near term. >What is the USA going to do otherwise, invade Geneva and >bring Markus Kummer to Guantanamo to confess everything?? Markus in an orange suit....hmmmm.... >On the other hand, it is a very concrete counterpoint to the icannites >who keep trying to convince us that Icann represents an independent, >autonomous, bottom-up, and above all global organization... That's what puzzles me. A better way to discredit ICANN could not be imagined. --MM