More on ICANN

A few more bits about ICANN's latest meeting, where they picked several new .tld's: The BBC has a report about the demands made by ICANN upon country-code registrars. They seem pretty peeved about not having any voice whatsoever within ICANN. Ted Byfield has some good coverage of the meeting itself, distilled down from his roving_reporter column for TBTF.

What ICANN failes to realize...

[scotpurl]

...is that by failing to act honorably, they are pissing the rest of us off. Once enough large corporations and entities get furious, ICANN will be replaced.

I think ICANN is doing it's best to make itself obsolete.

Please, Succeed, ICANN

[Bluesee]

Say it... I CAN!

'Cuz if this global organization fails, you're going to see all the nations step in and manage the internet from behind their own borders. That could mean that content can be reduced to the least common denominator with respect to all kinds of aspects.

A global oversight committee is essential to the integrity of the internet.

Just like the WTO

[gbnewby]

ICANN is fitting in quite nicely with their buddies from WIPO (who helps them to make it easy for international domain hijacking) and the World Trade Organization )of frequent protests over the past year).

It's quite clear that big business has woken up to the value of the Internet. And when the laws of their own nation don't work, or are two slow, ICANN and their partners in trans-national beyond-law crime exist to help those with money and power use the Net to grow -- at the expense of individuals and innovators.

The main difference is that it took years for the WTO and their brethren organizations to become the subject of international protest. This was shorter than, say, Nike and other multi-national corporations took to get strung up for anti-human labor practices. Can we expect a similar awakening about ICANN and the absurdly large scope of power it has?

Probably not...too geeky.