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ICANN Eliminates Karl Auerbach's Seat
BrianWCarver writes "SiliconValley.com carries an AP report by Anick Jesdanun indicating that ICANN has given Karl Auerbach the boot by eliminating his seat as well as the four other publicly elected seats on ICANN's board. ICANN is the internet's key oversight body, managing the Top-Level Domains (TLDs). You may recall from this previous Slashdot story that Auerbach is the director who successfully sued ICANN to receive access to their records without having to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement. 'Though soon leaving the ICANN board, Auerbach vows to keep complaining. And he leaves with no regrets -- he'd do it again.' It'll now be up to organizations like ICANNWatch to keep an eye on ICANN for the public. Is that good enough?'"
On the ground? On the table? Or will he just stand? I bet he finds this very uncomfortable.
... action from the last vestiges of elitism and arrogance that helped the Internet stay small and academic before the plaque of commercialism was allowed access in the early 90s.
Ahhh, the good ol' days, when the Internet was young, and closed to only the educated, and information was free to anyone who could pay tuition or get a grant/scholarship... all this open and free sharing of information, regardless of the IQ of the participant. I'm tellin' ya, we never should have let the stupid vote.
Dirty peasants!</sarcasm>
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He's going to go to work for ICANNOT
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I never use domain names anyway. When I want to web surf (only thing the Internet's good for), I just type in random IP addresses and see what I get. It's completely random that I'm here now posting this. The bestiality porn has cost me a few jobs, but I've learned 3 new sexual positions and proudly own a shiny X10 camera.
My wife gives me so much grief when I forget and leave the seat up on theCANN, how could anyone get away with removing them completely!
come on fhqwhgads
what I would love to see is a candidate running in the election in 8 days that openly talks about nerd issues
I'd like to see the response of a politician asked "Do you feel that ICANN's actions are justified in eliminating Karl Auerbach's position from their board?"
They gave him the TLD .bye
"Publicly elected Karl Auerbach, suspected terrorist sympathiser, is booted from the ICANN board. His insubordination was seen as counter productive in the war on terrorism by the other self-appointed members of the board. One member said, 'Mr. Auerbach was a subversive who was sympathetic to freedom loving people - not a patriot. We will not allow these neo-commies the ability to destroy everything I, I mean we, have built. He may have been elected by the public, but the public doesn't know what we know and we know lots of stuff that would scare the public but we aren't to say what it is cause it's really scary.'"
LoRider
Let's hope Auerbach left the plans for the DNS server loaded in the memory buffer of a brave astromech droid.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
``Karl's a conundrum,'' ICANN Chairman Vint Cerf added.
Why should they care about what religion he is if he's capable of the job?
In SOVIET RUSSIA... erm...NSA AMERICA, the Internet logs onto YOU!
But then they would need to be called GNU/ICANN
They're essentially running a dictatorship, doing things how they want, not disclosing information, not allowing their own to see their inner workings, and eliminating the public voice.
Excuse me, were you talking about the "War on Terror" or "ICANN" ?
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by painting your mom as a "loose woman" and your dad as "sexually naive" is scurrilous. A false binary-opposition is constructed: on the one side the claims of the sewing circles, bridge clubs, and professional organizations that they are responsible, sober and politically sophisticated adults, and on the other the picture of your mom we have all seen on the internet.
The fact is that your parents' lawyers tried to restrict information that ought to be available to the public let alone a sex-starved teenager, the courts found that this was wrong and then the niggers decide to kick the shit out of them.
Let's get your parents under control. It's our friggin brothel subsidized with our drug money, populated by our children.
On the other hand, I mostly stopped bitching about bureaucrats using this terminology when I built a lab a couple of years ago - we had $900 desks, with $400 PCs on them, so if the Furniture Mafia are getting more of the money, they can decide which stuff gets the title. (Of course, the reason we had $900 desks and $1500 racks that arrived six months and eight procurement review meetings after we started the project instead of $100 desks and $200 Metro shelves that the furniture store on the next block said they could deliver on Tuesday was because the Building Furniture Mafia told us that furniture procurement was An Offer We Couldn't Refuse, and that we would only be allowed to install racks that were Officially Earthquake-Bolted to the floor, and the only way to get Official Earthquake-Bolting was to order furniture from people the Building Furniture Mafia had deals with...)
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