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ICANN vs. ccTLDs in Geneva

Posted by michael on from the wardrums dept.

Gallowglass writes "The Register is reporting on an interesting meeting in Geneva. To quote from the article, 'Why the huge fuss? Because the meeting threatened to turn into a caucus where rising resentment against ICANN and its attempt to stamp ultimate authority over the Internet could have escalated into international agreement and action.' Didn't quite, but the natives are restless. The article has links to all presentations given at the two day meeting, and also an audio of the event at the bottom of the article. It's also a good summary of the controversy and of its history."

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  1. Is something the matter? by arvindn · · Score: 3, Funny
    10 mins since the story posted and only 10 comments so far??

    Could it really be that /.ers are going and reading the article???

    If so, today, 6th March 2003 will be remembered as a special day in the history of slashdot ;^)

  2. Re:Down with ICANN... but what next... by syle · · Score: 4, Funny
    I, for one, know that Microsoft is the only company who can be trusted to control the future of the internet.

    We should let them control it. After all, their vision is the vision of a peacful humanity, living in harmony where all the MS-Citizens have equal rights to whatever MS-TLD they choose, and the MS-DNS would happily MS-Route all the MS-IP packets to their perfect destinations.

    Really, isn't that an idealing MS-World we can all be happy with?

    --

    /syle

  3. Re:ICANN's reputation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    What they oughta do is turn ICANN over to the United Nations.

    No, no, no... turn it over to Iraq. Then everyone will be behind the war effort!