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ICANN Voting Begins
gorsh writes: "Voting has begun for the at-large positions on ICANN's board of directors. If you are one of the lucky ones who was able to register as an at-large member, you should go to the site to vote now. These are the people who will help decide lots of important issues like the creation of new TLDs and who gets ownership of disputed domain names, so make your voice heard..." I'm not allowed to vote. Course, if I could, all I would do is try to get control of the .dot TLD.
I don't know why Taco feels that you had to be a "lucky one" to get registered. I waited until the /. slowed down, and then when I did register, I made sure I wasn't clicking on an ICANN link that was on a /. page (that is, they wouldn't see a referring page of "slashdot.org" and know to ignore me.
I registered, got on the little announcement list, and then my password and The Rules showed up in the snailmail. And then I took my time reading over those Rules...
Fsck that. It's just like flatpack wrote here: customer-driven capitalism has fallen by the wayside to be replaced for producer-driven capitalism in which we are to be treated as "customers" rather than as citizens. No matter who is voted in in these elections, the corporations will still control ICANN, and they're not out to help anyone but themselves.
Face it, guys. As soon as they were given authority, it was all over. They've won; the Internet has lost.
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
Perhaps you are correct in your thinking. Perhaps all is not as bad as you think. As little as the door is open to change at ICANN, I think it is worth the time and effort to attempt to change ICANN. All that is nessary "for producer-driven capitalism" to win is that "Libertarians" and other freedom loving people not to oppose them. Assuming you want to change 'them'. If you don't even attempt to vote and change the system from within your only recourse is, by default, to try to change the system from the outside. Trying to change ICANN from outside is clearly impossiable. So rather than try the impossiable I choose to try the possiable, howerever unlikley, and vote to change ICANN.
zenray
With your grammatical blunder, it's hard to believe that your claim is any more credible than your fake ID.
"Ancillary does not mean you get to rule the world." --U.S. Circuit Judge Harry Edwards, speaking to the FCC's lawyer
Why not just adopt the same marketing ploys as DeBeers? Steve Case probably already brought this up, in his Jay Leno-esque way.
"Ancillary does not mean you get to rule the world." --U.S. Circuit Judge Harry Edwards, speaking to the FCC's lawyer
Thanks. I thought so, too.
Got Rhinos?
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Got Rhinos?
Although it is painfully obvious to anyone who has used the internet for more that a few years, the only way that ICANN will truly achieve democratisation of TLD's is to create as many as possible.
In the same way that the DeBeers family maintain the artificially high price of diamonds by restricting flow onto the worlds markets, the desirability of TLD's remains contrived; flood the market.
Many people tried voting yesterday and received error messsages saying their username/password/pin were incorrect when trying to cast their vote even though they were able to login.
Number = 50101
Description = Invalid credentials. Your member number, PIN code and password combination is incorrect.
Source = Component.ApplyVote failed
The sad part is that Election.com had no one monitoring the ICANN election 24/7 since attempts by many ICANN Members to contact Election.com regarding the voting problems were unsuccessful. Surely, one would expect better oversight over an election of such importance.
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The candidates that are on the paper have all refused to say anything about organisational politics, trademarks and intellectual property, or corporate influence.
Just to top it of, looking at this page of statistics, it was hard to escape the conclusion that the vote was being stacked.
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I meant like a forged state driver's license that you use to get into over-21 parties.
"Ancillary does not mean you get to rule the world." --U.S. Circuit Judge Harry Edwards, speaking to the FCC's lawyer
Got Rhinos?
The world needs more satire. I'm gunning for
Bowie J. Poag
Bowie J. Poag
Not to be confused with http://dashdot.dash/ - the homepage for the Morse code enthusiasts club, of course.
Erm, sorry.
I remember the frenzy here on /. when it was originally announced that ICANN would be holding elections for the position of at-large directors, and how everyone thought it was a great step foward for online democracy and the rights of netizens. But this seems to me to a naive attitude in that it assumes that everybody is going to play fair and that large organisations can be trusted to play within the rules. This is why the Libertarians aren't in power, and this is why your vote won't matter.
The sad truth is that ICANN, like many other American organisations, is little more than a corporate whore pandering to the $$$ passed its way. I mean, they've already got things like the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy designed to give their masters the advantage over mere people, and God forbid if anything should change this state of affairs! But rather than coming out and simply admitting this, they've chosen to allow a token gesture in the form of the at-large elections, although even then most of the candidates are in the pockets of big business.
Yes, this is another example of how customer-driven capitalism has fallen by the wayside to be replaced for producer-driven capitalism in which we are to be treated as "customers" rather than as citizens. No matter who is voted in in these elections, the corporations will still control ICANN, and they're not out to help anyone but themselves. It's just another example of how America, once the land of the free, has become a fascist superstate run by big business.
The so called "at large membership" is merely
window dressing.
This article explains in painful detail who really controls ICANN.
ICANN is a scam.
...all I would do is try to get control of the .dot TLD.
.com site was really a company, and a .org site was really non-profit!)
Why would you want control of a TLD for the Department of Transportation? Oh, *I* get it... You're trying to get out of parking tickets!
(Oh for the days when TLDs actually *meant* something - when a
ICANN's website has always been slow or non-functional. Is ICANN really the future of the net if it ca'nt stay up? Is it a poorly managed site, or just a plot to rig the votes by making the site unavailable to the public?
Well, I've got my PIN code ready, but they aren't. Anyhow, if I ever do get into that blasted site, any recommendations who to vote for?
Does that make you an ICANN'T?
I'm really sorry, I had to. You can go ahead and mod me down, I deserve it.
When the new TLDs come out, do you think we'll see a slew of slogans like "Fred's Diner: The .fredsdiner People?"
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Give me liberty or give me something of equal or lesser value from your glossy 32-page catalog.
I've been trying to wrestle propaganda.com away from some knuckledragger with a garage band for a few years now...And the longer I wait, the more i'm beginning to think that no amount of TLD distinction will ultimately correct the problem.
Here's an example. Your company is called Triangle. How many companies in the world are also called Triangle, and what gives one the right to claim a singular "triangle.foo" domain above another? Fiddling with the nomenclature isnt going to fix anything, but rather it will prolong the problem.
All this foo reminds me of the old days of telephones..First you were given say a 5-digit number.. Then, as more people got telephones in their homes and businesses, the number needed to be increased to a 7 digit number...Then a 10 digit number, and now, im some places, its even more than that.... Ultimately, you'll have a fixed number of people who can be reached via a 1-2-3 prefix as you would with a ".com" suffix. Pointless.
The real solution can be found in non-partial search engines or some other central authority which kept a fairly sorted list of possibilities one could choose from. "Propaganda Desktop Enhancement Graphics" would simply be "Propaganda Desktop Enhancement Graphics", not propaganda.com, or propaganda.tilez.org, or propaganda.themes.org, or any other bizzare permutation of the address. A central directory is needed that doesnt have a vested interest in promoting one business over the other in any given category. Large scale problems demand large-scale cooperation, not a kindergarten "I got there first" pee-on heirarchy.
Check out Nerd God Doug Engelbart's OHS Project.. Thats the closest thing i've seen that could tackle the problem entirely instead of postponing the inevitable.
Until then, we'll just be bickering and bickering and bickering about who owns names until we're blue in the face. The land squabbles will get so bizzare 20-30 years down the road that you'll probably start seeing people claiming that they own the rights to the letter "S", and demand a licensing fee from anyone who happens to use an S in the name of their business. We're not that far off now. Anyone remember chunkymunky.com?
Hugs and kisses,
Bowie J. Poag
Bowie J. Poag
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