ICANN Budget Questioned

Thing I am writes "The proposed 2004-5 budget for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has hit a snag - the rest of the world is refusing to pay its share of the bill. ICANN last week proposed a budget of $15.8m for next year, nearly twice as much as its current annual expenditure."

Comments

Re:Due to lack of funding...

[Zeinfeld]

I dont know about your claim to have invented the Internet (Is that you, Al??), but i have to say, as a American, without the US the internet would not exist today, so we have a right to own and control some part of it.You guys should be more grateful, for this and other things.

And we Brits invented electricity, the steam engine, television and radio. So we should have the right to control them.

Your claims are actually way off. The Internet protocols were developed in the US, but if the Web had appeared later than it did it would probably have used the OSI stack which was largely the result of work in the UK.

Sure there are technical differences between TCP/IP and OSI, TCP/IP might even have some advantages. But to claim that there would be no computer networking without the US is simply untrue.

Most coutries grow out of this type of weenie size measurement. We grew out of it, you should try it too. Your type of thinking is the reason you guys are currently up to your ass in the Iraq quagmire, that and the fact that your incompetent "President" got taken by a ride by Iranian intelligence. If you were not such suckers for the weenie size rhetoric you would never have elected him in the first place. But then again of course you never did.