ICANN Bucharest Meeting Comes to a Close

ICANN has been meeting in Bucharest this week; as this story goes live (assuming I handled the time zones correctly) they'll be starting their last day of meetings. Highlights of the day will almost certainly include the ICANN Board voting to eliminate the public participation that they were charged with implementing and have fought against for the last several years, and ICANN implementing a domain name tax to fund their operations. ICANN dismisses cynics who complain about taxation without representation. You can view the webcast online, assuming that the volunteers doing it manage to keep it up. If you prefer text, you may like Roessler's weblog or the ICANN blog (highly recommended), which also has many links to news stories, not that the reporters generally understand the issues very well.

Comments

Read your history again, moron.

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One is a forced tax which you have to pay to live and not goto jail, while the other is more of a service charge then a tax(but still a tax!).

The british were taxing things like tea, paper, granular sugar, etc. While all of those things are important, they are not needed to live.