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DoC to Extend ICANN's Control of IANA
Luminous Coward writes "I first saw this on The Register. Kevin Murphy of Computerwire reports: The US Department of Commerce last week quietly published a document detailing its decision to "sole-source" the contract for the so-called IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) function to ICANN, as opposed to opening the contract for competitive bidding. ICANNWatch explains why this is a bad idea. They also report that the ccTLDs and the Internet Multicasting Service have expressed interest in running IANA."
Also, not to mention the fact that 60% of their member nations are controlled by dictartorships.
Two words: impotent, hypocritical.
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
Unlike the US, who only get one word: arrogant. I really do hope that the attitude displayed above is not that felt for the rest of the US, otherwise things are worse than I assumed.
We hear George W saying that he will attack Iraq, UN be damned, but also tells us that the US cannot afford to rebuild the country after the attack, and that we are going to have to help out.
Screw that. We don't want an attack on Iraq, 'cause we can see what's really going on. Do you really think that Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction" would hurt the US? They don't have the missiles to launch to the States, and so will really only be effective around the Arab nations.
Iraq has been crippled by economic sanctions (thanks to the USA) and to add insult to injury, they're going in again! For God's sake, the original Gulf War was a joke to begin with: what makes the US believe that they can come in and solve century old disputes because they are who they are?
North Korea is practically taunting the world with their nuclear capabilities, with no doubt of their abilities to strike America, and what happens? Your fearless president decides to negotiate? Did I hear that right? Everywhere else in the world, that's called "Double Standards". Apparently in the US, it's known as "diplomatic efforts".
So why the difference in attitude? It's obvious to everyone in the world, and I assumed that it would be obvious from where you stand.
Take a look at your economy: reaching debt limits faster than you can increase them, and introducing a "budget" while the last one still hasn't been completely passed yet!
The Euro and gold looks set to become the new currency reserve, and all of a sudden the US dollar doesn't have it's absolute power, and the US economy has to work like every other one. Don't think the US dollar's losing control? No country with the Euro needs it, and together they have more citizens and buying power than the US.
Should I go on? No. Why? Because as with everything, no-one will ever change their point of view on something like this.
But all I see is a guy in the White House saying to the UN "Give us an answer, and if we don't like it, you can all go to hell. Oh by the way, you'll pick up the tab, right?"
The only difference between the dictators in these member nations is that they aren't trying to dictate other countries.
There was a UN resolution telling Israel to move out of the occupied territories. Israel has obviously not moved out, and while many countries have said it should, the US just lets Israel do whatever they want.
Please read the resolution. Security Council resoluton 242 does call for:
"Withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict"
but it also calls for:
"Termination of all claims or states of belligerency and respect for and acknowledgement of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every State in the area"
The resolution also put equal weight on these 2 principles. The Arabs are still at war with Israel and refuse to make peace, so Israel hasn't withdrawn from the territories.
(Yes, Egypt and Jordan are at peace with Israel, but they're the only ones)
I know this is offtopic, but I just HAD to see why I only saw 63 comments with 434 below my threshold. I found out after setting threshold to -1. I sacraficed myself for the greater good of the slashdot community. THRESHOLD AT 1, EVERYONE!!!! You don't wanna see it. It's not pretty.
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