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U.S. Commerce Department renews ICANN MoU for one year
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There's really little of anything new and substantive. Am I alone here (especially after reading DoC's "accompanying statement")? Really, how much can ICANN accomplish in one year, when you take into account vacations, weeks of time spent on planning and traveling to Ghana, China, etc., just to hold a few hours worth of meetings.
It's a show folks, little more.
Hans & company just got another free pass for a year. What the DoC is requiring of ICANN seems to be little more than what ICANN already does (or is supposed to do).
The part about adding new TLDs reads well, but when you think about it, the minimum criteria set for new registries will probably be based on Verisign/Neulevel - sized models, virtually eliminating
small players, like IOD. After all, "stability" is more important than not shafting the customer, right? I think we all shot ourselves in the foot demanding "minimum criteria" for new registries.
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Ha! All the naysayers on this site have been proven wrong once again. Commerce has done the right thing by signing the MOU. Give the reforms a chance to work. Nice job Nancy & Stuart!
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I am amazed that the long overdue and promised review of the UDRP is not mentioned as in need of some speeding up. Then the DOC has only praise for the UDRP. Remarkable, since the statement is quite frank about other shortcomings.
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ICANN signed the MoU, not NTIA's press release. If the Department of Commerce really meant what it said, it would have put it into the agreement itself.
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Coverage from WiReD and the NY Times [may require free signup]. There's more, but they're recycling the same bathwater. When someone hacks the root this year and the net crashes for a few hours (which equates to $billions in losses) the USG will announce that it is tickled pink that ICANN has seen fit to create a security advisory committee (so Steve Crocker has some money he can lend to his brother). And you governments that don't like it can suck up to Dr. Paul Twomey, the non-elected and illegitimate head of the GAC, which the USG also thinks is just swell. -g
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