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ICANN is meeting in Bucharest next week, which means they're floating all their usual smoky-room schemes just prior to the meeting. leto writes "The three RIR's, ARIN, APNIC and RIPE-NCC have just released a joint statement that basically tells ICANN that their
Evolution and Reform plan is unacceptable, and tells ICANN to go play elsewhere, and leave the address space in the hands of the well working bodies." An interesting mailing list debate has been going on between ICANN's critics and ICANN's extremely well-paid and extremely sleazy attorney: critic, attorney (sleazy!), critic again, another critic, attorney again, critic's response, still other critics. And finally, note that the .org TLD is up for bids - the New York Times has a story, Newsforge has another.
no, the italics is used because a user submitted this, acronyms are normally full caps (when was the last time you saw Fbi?).
Welcome to /.
I stole this Sig
Pardon me for flaming, but...
Have you heard of computers? Of course you have. How about web software? Yep.
So are you one of those folks who:
A. would never trust a website with your credit card information, much less some third party to tally your vote on whether or not to grant a block of 4096 IP address to the fine folks at ilovemonkeysex.com?
B. advocates the perpetuation of the electoral college - which was created in the days when people sent messages on horseback?
C. both of the above?
Vortran out
Knowledge is like ignorance.. too much can be just as bad as not enough.
wailing and gnashing of teeth?!
you can't say that!!
only my senior-year biomechanics professor has that right!
start pushing the "newtonian way of thinking" and i just might come over there with a closed fist you hack!
(ah, the life and thoughts of a jaded biomed engineer...)
anyone want to save me???