ICANN Director Sues ICANN for Access to Records

According to an EFF press release (press release mirror) today, Karl Auerbach (the North American elected representative to ICANN's board) filed suit (petition mirror) today against ICANN itself to obtain financial and other records that he has been seeking to obtain since December 2000. As a bit of background, according to general summaries that ICANN has released, it now spends about $6 million per year (for a job that used to be done by volunteers); roughly half of all the money it spends goes to the law firm of Jones Day.

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Re:I've said this before

[Arker]

Just replace the root servers but keep the DNS system? Couple million $ per year, max. You just need a lot of redundant bandwidth, very hefty machines, and a few dozen employees.

To replace the root servers with a new system and update all the software and hardware using DNS? Couple hundred million $, min. There's a whole lot of stuff that just assumes things work one way and you'd have to really work to find it all and fix it. It's a smaller version of the Y2K problem.

Why on earth would you need to do that? Just get folks that run DNS servers to look to the new ones for their updates...