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ITU Still Knocking On the Door As ICANN Tries to Shut It
posted by michael on Thursday September 26 2002, @02:57AM

The ITU has been saying for a while that it would just love to help ICANN...a view it just reiterated and sought to 'clarify' ("ITU Member States unanimously support Mr Zhao's initiative in proposing to increase cooperation with ICANN in order to help ICANN to overcome the difficulties noted by Mr Stuart Lynn when he called for ICANN reform. However, there is no consensus among Member States with respect to the best ways for ITU to increase its cooperation"), and clarify some more.

Some people, especially those at ICANN and the US government, think that the ITU is about as cuddly as a boa constrictor or maybe viper. And ICANN's fear and suspicion of the ITU is so great that ICANN decided to pay GAC insiders money to run meetings rather than take the risk that the ITU would provide those services for free. ICANN also plans to do away with the PSO, the part of the ICANN structure that represents standards bodies (and currently selects three members of the ICANN Board). The ITU, which sees itself as a standards body, doesn't think that's wise. [paragraph corrected]

There are a lot of things about the ITU that make me uneasy, not least the third-class status for individual participants in its doings, but it's interesting that the more people get frustrated with ICANN, the better the ITU looks. It helps that in Richard Hill and a few other others it has the foot soldiers in one of the best charm offensives I've seen in my life. But it will take more than charm to persuaded ICANN...or DoC for that matter.

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Re: ITU Still Knocking On the Door As ICANN Tries
by fnord ({groy2k} {at} {yahoo.com}) on Saturday September 28 2002, @07:20AM (#9448)
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I must say that I'm very impressed with the amount of clue shown by Richard Hill and Robert Shaw (except that his blog is a month out of date). OTOH at least Houlin Zhao showed up when he was asked. Ya, give it over to the ITU and it will run like a Swiss watch. -g

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Fostering competition?
by isquat on Thursday September 26 2002, @10:44PM (#9418)
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By its very nature, as a regulator of a cartel, run by the members of the cartel, ICANN only pays lipservice to fostering competition. Cartels never dissolve themselves.
It is striking that ICANN is now fighting with ccTLDs over zone transfer (getting the complete data), and argues the need for it by insisting on two nameservers for each domain. They want to check that in the ccTLD zones. Well, in the com/net/org zones there are tens of thousands of domains with NO nameserver. Why is ICANN not enforcing the same rule there, where they could so much more easily? Because it does not fit into the plan: Getting control over everything by the cartel. The cartel does not want to do things in the benefit of "the community". It want just the power to have things as it likes it.

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Re: Fostering competition? by fnord Saturday September 28 2002, @06:58AM
- Re: Fostering competition? by fnord Tuesday October 01 2002, @04:23AM
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