ICANN Ditches Public Participation 204
Ziest writes "The AP is reporting that ICANN, who is meeting in Shanghai, has voted to eliminate direct elections to its board of directors." See also does-not-exist.org. It's not as if this is recent change -- just the last step in a long process.
How can they get away with this. (Score:5, Funny)
Lord Vader has disolved the Senate (Score:2, Funny)
From the article: (Score:5, Funny)
Right. With this latest move, unresponsiveness now becomes a distinct possibility. I'd really hate to see ICANN become indifferent to ordinary users...
Re:Lord Vader has disolved the Senate (Score:3, Funny)
Re:How can they get away with this. (Score:2, Funny)
Shanghai (Score:5, Funny)
From the article (Score:5, Funny)
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And having dropped all pretention of fairness (Score:5, Funny)
In keeping with these changes, ICANN announces that it will be changing its name to reflect its new mission to become:
Universal Controller of All Network Traffic.
(Headline: ICANN changes name to UCANT).
Credit. [slashdot.org]
Re:Did you notice this? (Score:4, Funny)
Not exactly. I would say it is more like having a lobotomy because your brain keeps telling you it's not good to eat toxic waste, but you happen to like the taste of it.
Re:Did you notice this? (Score:5, Funny)
Isn't that like cutting off your leg because of an ingrown toenail?
Actually, it's more like cutting off your feet with a rusty pocketknife because they hurt when you walk barefoot on broken glass and rusty nails.
Re:Lord Vader has disolved the Senate (Score:3, Funny)
"Fear will keep the local systems in line." [cnn.com]
"The Senate has got a lousy record on my judges. We need to change the Senate for a lot of reasons, and one reason is to make sure we've got a sound judiciary," he said Monday in Denver.
"This comprehensive plan calls for a clean start..." added the President's lapdog, Ari Fleisher.
(ok so it's not as bad as i made it sound, but it's still pretty funny, in context)
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
The Earth shifted even further in it's orbit, as Jon Postel continued spinning madly in his grave.
The inevitable name change... (Score:3, Funny)
Corporation for
Assigning
Names and
Numbers via
Totalitarianism
Re:And having dropped all pretention of fairness (Score:5, Funny)
66.35.250.150
Re:Did you notice this? (Score:5, Funny)
In other news, Vint Cerf was heard to remark "Let them eat cake!"
Re:Did you notice this? (Score:5, Funny)
On a more serious note I would have thought there'd be some legislation to stop a public services company ('cause that's what ICANN is, like it or not) from reducing it's public accountability...
Shanghaied! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:From the article: (Score:5, Funny)
Lynn and others said the group's former method of electing five of the 18 board members over the Internet bogged ICANN down in debates that held up its main work -- making decisions that affect everything from how Web sites are named to how e-mail is sent.
Elected member: "We can't do that, it's wrong. They've been in business, since the great-great-grandfather arrived from Russia in 1830, and been shipping orders from their webpage since 1992!"
Appointed member: "There he goes again, bogging us down, holding up our main work"
A.M. 2: "We need to get on with transferring shapirosdelicatessen.com to Microsoft, since the new MS Delicatessen IDE is coming out next fall."
A.M. 3: "And don't forget, we've got to transfer cerf.net from that cybersquatter, Vint Cerf, Verizon, for their new C(entral) E(uropean) R(adio) F(requency) wireless broadband network."
Chairman: "Bailiff, remove him."
Re:From the article: (Score:1, Funny)
No more elections (Score:5, Funny)
The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I have just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.
Anonymous Coward: "But that's impossible. How will the Emperor maintain control without the bureaucracy?"
The regional governors now have direct control over their territories. Fear will keep the local systems in line.
Re:History Repeats Itself... (Score:2, Funny)
You know, I seem to have encountered mention of Hitler or Nazis in several of the threads I've browsed in the last week or two.
It just made me wonder if Godwin's law [faqs.org] also applies to /.?
And if it does, what does it mean when those posts are modded up?!?
Mike
Re:How can they get away with this. (Score:1, Funny)