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ICANN's Next Move: On To Africa
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ICANN, the censor of the legacy root and the
regulator that helps create artificial scarcity
of IP address space to support corrupt RIRs
will fit right in with the regimes in Africa.
Fortunately, freedom loving people in North
America have now seen enough of the ISOC game
to route around it. It is a shame, uninformed
Africans may end up as ICANN's next victims.
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The 8 bits used to mark packets are now going
to be used to black list IP blocks.
There are various proposals on how the binary
bits should be set.
Male/Female
Over18/Under18
Christian/Non-Christian
Straight/Gay
Human/Robot
Attorney/Non-Attorney
ISOC Member/Non-ISOC Member
Government Official/Non-Government Official
People will get everything they have asked for
from their government and the ISOC.
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ICANN has locked the doors to shut out the community of internet users.
At the same time ICANN has rolled out the red carpet for intellectual property interests and selected sellers of certain kinds of domain name products.
It isn't merely the community of internet users in Africa that is disenfranchised in ICANN. Rather it is the whole community of internet users everywhere around the world.
ICANN's ALAC was a disaster in concept and has proved to be a disaster in practice; the number of groups that have signed up couldn't even field a marching band's worth of people - far fewer than the numbers who participated back in ICANN's only open public processes in year 2000.
I was amused to see one of ICANN's insider architects of the ALAC complain that the UN WGIG isn't representative of net users. It is even more amusing to remember that so many ICANNites have tried to justify ICANN's anti-user mechanisms on the grounds that governments (which form the WGIG) are the representatives of their citizens. ICANN, like many sleazy politicos, likes to chose the story and the reason to support the desired outcome; consistency and logic don't seem to be considered important.
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I don't quite understand the reference to the people who can't contribute. They hardly know there's Internet. So, is ICANN supposed to change governments???
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