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Should the UN Replace ICANN?

Posted by timothy on from the gold-medal-in-arrogance dept.

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)."

4 of 591 comments (clear)

  1. Re:No way... by skaffen42 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I vote NO on rewarding incompetence and nepotism.

    Always good to meet another Kerry voter... :)

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  2. Backwards? by demind · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think that ICANN should replace the UN!

  3. That's the spirit! by Fnkmaster · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. Are domain names needed? by dumllama · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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