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ICANN's Next Move: On To Africa
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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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