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Should the UN Replace ICANN?
An anonymous reader writes "Yahoo news has a story on how some developing countries want control of the assignment of network names and numbers turned over to an international body, such as the UN's ITU (International Telecommunication Union)."
Rich spammers get the packets, developing nations get some food, and UN bureaucrats get a fat payoff.
Yeah, that's the ticket. Time to bone up on my French.
I vote NO on rewarding incompetence and nepotism.
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I think that ICANN should replace the UN!
Let's take away control of the Internet from the corrupt, unaccountable, undemocratic, hopelessly bureaucratic organization that controls it today so we can make sure it's controlled by ...
Oh, you said the UN?
Nevermind.
1. Those who know the UN is a useless, corrupt body
2. Idiots
Dear U.N.,
No.
Signed,
- Everyone
Seriously, though, the U.N.? I'm all for internationalization, and I believe working with the global community is a very good idea, especially in the long run, but the U.N.? No. Maybe someone who has their act together. But not the U.N. As much as I get angry with my own government, at least I can rest easy at night knowing we don't pay any attention to the U.N. at all.
United Nations: 9/10 as an idea, 2/10 in implementation.
What is the relevance of any of these organizations to the Internet and orginization and management of Domain Names? I think it is a field they should stay away from since they should be more concerned with world politics at this point. Besides, there is no problem with ICANN as of now, its perfectly functional! So why change ownership?
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Could we just get rid of the centralized domain name system? Could we get rid of domain names all-together? Perhaps a search function like Google could make these names obsolete, and we can avoid the politics.
My technical knowledge is littile, so I'd appreciate any thoughts you guys have.
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It's ours. We built it. So everybody else leaches off it. There's no reason it should go out of the hands of the US. It's our. We own it. If you don't like it, don't use it.
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I wonder if they would come out with useless new TLD's like .Microsoft
Think how easy that would be to filter out.
May I ask you to reconsider the word "useless" ?
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