Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 22nd Sep 2006 11:16 UTC
Internet overseeing organisation ICANN will become an autonomous body, free from any form of government control, on 1 October 2008, if plans drawn up between it and the US government go according to plan. The current agreement between ICANN and the US Department of Commerce is due to expire next week, but speculation has been mounting for months over what will happen to management of the internet's vital domain name system.
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2005-07-06
"but I'm sure that with the New Order of Bush things will start to change"
That's the biggest load of crap I've ever heard?! What on Earth do Bush's policies have to do with ICANN? It is still managed by a group of people, not by the executive branch of our government.
"In any case, you americans are paranoid of the fact that you might lose control of something and even more afraid to "trust" someone."
Believing that our allies will feel the same way we do about issues may be naive, but I don't see how it could be misconstrued as an issue of paranoia and a fear to trust.
But you misconstrue we "Americans" with our gov't leaders. We elect those who seem to have the best mix of attributes (of those who actually RUN for office).
If I am given a choice of 2 candidates, for example, and candidate A has 3 qualities I like, and 2 I don't, but candidate B has only 2 qualities I like... then I am voting for candidate A.
We never elect an official that we completely agree with in every issue. It just doesn't happen. We pick the one that we think will more closely represent us in some of the issues.
Besides, we are never really IN CONTROL, so what's the point of being afraid of losing control?