The Root of All Evil?

9/28/1999


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Table of Contents

The Root of All Evil?

Two stories

An Internet “Choke Point”?

(Ab)use of the Root

Who Controls the Root?

Enter ICANN

Suppose ICANN Controls the Root

Bad Things?

The Real Evil: A Really Lousy Governance Model

The ICANN Structure Is Seriously Defective

Sample Defects

ICANN: Rulemaking adhocracy

“All Those Lawyers Going on About Rules”

Internet Participation in ICANN (Not?)

Making Participation Meaningful

What’s the Answer?

A Technical Solution?

Internal Reform?

Author: Michael Froomkin

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(c) Copyright 1999 A. Michael Froomkin U.Miami School of Law