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RIPE NCC Responds to ICANN CEO's Proposal

Posted by michael on from the playing-for-all-the-marbles dept.

An anonymous reader sends in: "RIPE NCC (the European IP address registry) responds to the ICANN proposals for reducing their own accountability even further whilst spending millions of everyone else's money." ICANN will be meeting next week in Ghana - ought to be a feisty meeting.

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  1. Ebay? by NiftyNews · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Sounds like it might be time to start gathering up some ICANN drink coolers and Ethics Manuals...

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  2. Re:In Ghana? by SubtleNuance · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    new-age, mushy, self-righteous political correctness

    Sorry, your 8th grade, Rightist knee-jerk idiocy about "political correctness" is pretty sad.

    Saying "Ghana is about as important to the Internet as fish are to bicycles and no matter how many meetings you convene there, the simple fact of Ghanian irrelevance will not change.

     perfectly illustrates my point. This isnt about how important Ghana's internet interests are to *you*. That is EXACTLY what im talking about. Dont you think that Ghana may want to partipate, as a full and equal partner in the "Global Information Village"? Further, why wouldnt their partnership be valuable? If your retort is 'they are poor, 3rd world nation' you have a very limited and select world-view, myopic and jingoistic is EXACTLY the right way to describe it.

    I personally welcome a larger presence of ideas and perspectives from other cultures... backwards and 'poor' ones included. If you leave the fantasy that is NorthAmerica (if not physically - then figuratively) you'll realize some important things about the world, and your participation/position in it.

    Further, Im not talking about feel-good-pop-PC-equal-funding-for-womens-field-ho ckey bullshit here, im trying to tell you that Ghana, as different and 'irrelevant' to the American Internet Industry as it may be, has a great deal of value, wisdom and knowledge to TEACH US.

    Come down of your High Horse pal, you might be convinced the NorthAmerican consumo-culture and American Cultural /Physical/Financial Imperialism is just fine, but others (myself(canadian)) completely and wholly are opposed to it.

    Inspite of what the Television tells you, American "progress" is not Welcome Everywhere... eat a little huble pie and listen to someone(where) else a while.