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Farber, Neumann, and Weinstein Call for End to ICANN

Posted by michael on from the new-hope dept.

lapse writes: "PFIR's latest policy statement calls for bringing an end to ICANN. Without assigning blame, it calls for immediate action, and suggests some possible paths forward. Let's hope that this clear statement from such a respected trio will lead to better times ahead for Internet policy management." Salon also has an interview with Karl Auerbach about his lawsuit against ICANN.

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  1. Re:ICANN by Masem · · Score: 4, Interesting
    It should be noted that due to lack of response from ICANN, one of the Houses of Congress (The House, I believe) passed a bill that would force the creation of a .kids TLD, and put it into the hands of NeuStar, the group that had originally proposed it to ICANN and was previous rejected. The bill would force NeuStar to police (with a good-faith effort) sites registered under .kids to make sure they are appropriate. Whether the other House has passed this, I don't know yet.

    (I dont' remember the source of the story though I think it was news.com, it was about 2 months ago, and did try to submit here to /.)

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  2. Avoid ICANN -- use OpenNIC by Dr.+Zowie · · Score: 3, Interesting

    OpenNIC is available now and is a strict superset of the ICANN namespace.