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Ah, yes, lovely people from Cuba, Saudi Arabia, and China are going to decide how the rest of us can use the internet...
What a crock.
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As opposed to lovely people from the Corporation to Pump Money Into Jones Day, aka ICANN?
ICANN needs, at a minimum, reconstruction for two reasons:
1. It is not doing diddly to actually protect the stable operation of DNS or IP addressing. The root servers are being operated completely outside of ICANN's orbit with no oversight from ICANN. And ICANN allows changes to DNS root zone contents without even pretending to have knowledge whether those changes are safe to make or not. In other words, ICANN as it now exists presents a clear danger to - not a protection against, but a danger to - the stability of the net.
2. What ICANN is doing is exactly the kind of thing that until now has been the job of national governments - the creation of rules that say what business practices are OK and what practices are not. ICANN's UDRP, its business-practice based selection of TLDs, its registry/registrar contracts, and its whois policies are nothing more than social and economic legislation done under the guise of a private contract. (And we are asked to ignore the elephantine Dep't of Commerce lurking in the background but unable to demonstrate that it has any legal authority to embue ICANN with the monopoly powers that ICANN exercises.)
If we like the idea of social and economic legislation over the internet we may as well remove the middleman, ICANN, and let governments do it directly.
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