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ICANN's Time Is Up, According To John Gilmore

Posted by timothy on from the tick-tick-tick dept.

EyesWideOpen writes: "Salon has a lengthy interview with Cygnus Software co-founder John Gilmore about why he feels it's time for ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, to go. Gilmore, along with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is currently helping to fund a lawsuit filed by ICANN director Karl Auerbach against ICANN. ICANN has denied Gilmore access to its financial information, providing the basis for the lawsuit. Gilmore states: 'I believe it's because there is information in there about how ICANN has misused its money, and/or has favored people who lent or gave it money.'"

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  1. ICANN changes its name by Raul654 · · Score: 2, Funny

    As was said in a previous slashdot comment,

    ICANN will now be known as UCANT
    (Universal Controller of All Network Traffic)

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  2. Hm by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 4, Funny
    ICANN's financials are right in the open for anyone to see on their website.

    http://www.icann.org/financials/.

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