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Karl Auerbach Speaks Out on ICANN

Posted by michael on from the taxation-without-representation dept.

richard koman writes "Here's an interview I did with Karl Auerbach about ICANN in the aftermath of their eliminating public board members. 'October's distributed, denial-of-service attack against the domain name system--the most serious yet, in which seven of the thirteen DNS roots were cut off from the Internet--put a spotlight on ICANN, the nongovernmental corporation responsible for Internet addressing and DNS. The security of DNS is on ICANN's watch. Why is it so susceptible to attack, when the Internet as a whole is touted as being able to withstand nuclear Armageddon? It's religious dogma, says Karl Auerbach, a public representative to ICANN's board. There's no reason DNS shouldn't be decentralized, except that ICANN wants to maintain central control over this critical function. Worse, Auerbach said in a telephone interview with O'Reilly Network, ICANN uses its domain name dispute resolution process to expand the rights of trademark holders, routinely taking away domains from people with legitimate rights to them, only to reward them to multinational corporations with similar names.'" A Wired article suggests the five elected board members won't be stepping down on December 15 after all.

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  1. In Other News... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dog bites man. New food found to increase/decrease cholesterol. More violence in the middle east. And of course, ICANN found to be irresponsible organization seeking to consolidate its power even further, and put itself beyond the reach of the general public.

  2. Re:Those Insensitive Clods!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yea....

    DNS is dying.

    Naked, petrified DNS.

    Hot DNS down your pants

    DNS the caveman.

  3. No time to lose!! Save our precious IPs! by zaqattack911 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everyone hurry up, and write down all the IP addresses of your favorite websites before it's too late!!! The DNS apocalypse is upon us!!

    Slashdot.org: 66.35.250.150
    freeporn.com: 209.150.195.101

    Wheew... well that about covers my use of the Internet.

    --Zuchini

  4. Easy by Lt+Razak · · Score: 2, Funny
    "The California company that oversees the Internet's domain-name structure has decided to keep its five democratically elected board members through early next year -- even though their terms were due to expire this month. "

    Easy. They just need to have sons, name them Dubya, and have the sons elected into office.