Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 26th Jun 2009 19:35 UTC
ICANN, the non-profit corporation which oversees the backbone of the internet, has a new CEO in the person of Rod Beckstrom, former director of US National Cybersecurity Center. He takes over ICANN in a rather tumultuous time, and during a press conference, he put forth some of his ideas on how ICANN should work. Basic gist: the internet works fine, so there's little need for change.
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2005-07-06
I really don't give a * about who is running the show wrt dns servers - but the fact that a single entity (in this case the US government) can trump all of the members speaks against the current model.
The process should be 100% democratic. Saying that there is a governing body is bullshit, since it can be ignored at any point in the process by the US government, yet the Canadian government has no say ...