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Why Talk About Internet Governance?
andyo wrote to mention an article on the O' Reilly network entitled Why They're Talking About Internet Governance. The piece goes into the history of how things came to be in the first place, as regards the distribution of internet domain space. From the article: "Having established commercial beachheads on the Internet, corporations wanted to own the whole terrain. Through the World Intellectual Property Organization ... they were designing a new regime for handling domain names. It was nicely suited to large corporations ... Within weeks of the successful conclusion of the Global Incorporation Alliance Workshop, a lash-up of Internet leaders, Network Solutions, and other back room forces popped a proposal of their own on a surprised and unprepared Internet community. The proposal ... ultimately led to ICANN. Most stakeholders were left out of the decision--even many large corporations were angry--but the Commerce Department approved the proposal, happy to wash its hands of the issue. "
owned
indeed :)
Just be glad it's not Yet Another Google Article.
How long until the "OpenOffice 2.0 officially released" story appears on Slashdot?
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
Have you seen the ad for www.dice.com on Slashdot? The job board? I just realized, its flawed!
//make sense so far // this block assumes mysalary GREATER THAN or EQUAL goodSalary // NOT suck_it_up()!!!
Think about it...
if (mysalary LESS THAN goodSalary) {
go to dice.com
else
print "You da man";
}