New ICANN Head Promises Greater Openness 9
PrideOfPomona writes "At ZDNet(UK),"The Internet addressing authority has been criticised as secretive, but new president Paul Twomey says the organisation is to turn over a new leaf"." I suppose it's possible that Twomey will be better.
Bah... (Score:2)
Remit (Score:3, Insightful)
More Openness? (Score:3, Insightful)
Only a few post? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Only a few post? (Score:1)
Paul - Interesting Challenge (Score:3, Informative)
ICANN is a pretty big challenge, and it'll be interesting to see how he goes.. but he's certainly got a fair bit of experience behind him that will probably assist him in the role.
Red.
My two favourite quotes here: (Score:4, Interesting)
what we're talking about here is the voting for the board members, which there is to my mind no easy solution for. It's one of those difficult questions: who gets to control the Internet? Nobody wants it to be one person or one organisation- but without some form of organisation, we end up with, well... ok. so we end up with pretty much what we've got now, only without anyone making people play at least somewhere NEAR the same playing field. And how do you assure equal representation among a huge body of people? (I recommend fairvote [fairvote.org] as a place to start thinking about this one... The internet is one place where how we, as a people overall, decide to run things is going to have long-term ramifications, and i give ICANN credit for at least being aware of that fact.
Which to me, translates into (i could be wrong) : ICANN learns that it needs to play well with others.It's a start.