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ICANN Meeting Passes on .com, .xxx decisions

Posted by Hemos on from the the-glaciers-in-town-moved-faster dept.

Rob writes "As the Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers wound up its annual meeting in Vancouver yesterday it was inactions that were still causing all the controversy. Major decisions on the .com and .xxx domains had been postponed until next year, as the domain name management body seeks to balance the interests of governments and commercial domain name organizations."

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  1. Criticism by Bogtha · · Score: 5, Funny

    He went on to observe several times that ICANN is criticized for not moving quickly enough as frequently as it is criticized for moving too slowly.

    Um... that makes sense, I guess. In other news, Slashdot is criticised for posting dupes as frequently as it is criticised for duplicating posts.

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  2. So, let's review... by meisenst · · Score: 5, Informative

    We don't want ICANN to be run by the United Nations.

    No, wait, we don't want ICANN to be run -like- the United Nations. Okay.

    So, ICANN has already passed decisions on the major resolutions of interest until next year, and instead is now the subject of political tugs of war, so much so that nothing is being accomplished except idle banter between politicians, committees and private industry.

    I'd say that it's already being run like the UN! =)

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