Tuesday, February 26, 2002

Wired News has more on the brewing ICANN controversy:If ICANN Can't, Who Should? The imbroglio began late Sunday, when the president of the ICANN candidly admitted that the group's experiment in global online democracy had been a loser of an idea. His language was blunt: "Flawed from the beginning ... noble but deeply unrealistic ... fatally flawed." 11:26:44 PM    Add your viewpoint [ comments so far]

Net body plans shake-up. Plans to give governments a greater say in the way the internet is run have provoked a wave of criticism. International groups are concerned the new plan may give the U.S. too much influence. Net protectors are worried about the loss of the "at large" votes in ICANN. The ridiculously named agency (which keeps proving it CAN'T) just keeps running into itself over and over and over and.... 11:13:38 AM    Add your viewpoint [ comments so far]

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