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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Member since:2005-07-06
Democracy, Communism and any other form of governance that advocates rule by the masses is ridiculous. Equal say? Fair share? The world just doesn't work this way. If it did there wouldn't be inequality and neither would justice be dependent on how much you own or how much money you make.
Face it... there are those in power, and then there is the rest of us.
Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:2005-07-06
Reminds me of the argument over an international court; imagine you're facing the international court and you find that the judges are from former colonies of your home country - you think that they'd put their bias's aside to judge you fairly?
Its nice to be young and idealistic but the United Nations is an example of what happens where politics end up breaking an organisation into a dysfunctional quango that is answerable to no one. I agree that it needs to be opened up but at the same time it shouldn't be opened up so large that it ends up becoming dysfunctional.
Edited 2009-06-28 14:56 UTC
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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 ...