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ICANN Meets Annan
CypherOz writes "The Australian reports a meeting between ICANN chief Twomey and Kofi Annan and the role the UN may play in the naming game. " We've talked about this before as well.
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Tell me where all the cash from the "food for oil" programme went? It didn't go to food. It went to bribe top UN, French, German and Russian officials (probably as far up as Putin and Chirac) to support Saddam.
The UN under Kofi Annan has become as corrupt as gangland Chicago.
The other problem is that the UN is by no stretch of the imagination a "global government". It's a club for dictators to grand-stand while the powers from the end of WW II watch with their veto powers.
The party of stupid and the party of evil get together and do something both stupid and evil, then call it bipartisan.
This is the same body that put Syria in charge of Human Rights. Given their track record, my bet is they'll just let Verisign continue to run things...
I can think of no better way of hastening the demise of DNS than by turning it into a truly political asset. Once technical control and guidance over DNS is turned over to governments already keen to warp it for commercial interests, what remains of its technical usefulness will dwindle.
This gives us the perfect opportunity (and finally incentive) to come up with something better.
The point is the Internet is a US invention and all the infrastructure to run it are either in the US or are allowed to participate by permission from the US. If the UN wants an internet then let the UN build it. Other nations are justified to be warry not only beucase the US may decide to cut off a nation's access to the 'net but in some cases should cut of access.
As for getting anything decided at these meetings, that's a whole other matter entirely.