ICANN's Contract Renewed

mrogers writes "The International Herald Tribune is reporting that ICANN's contract has been renewed for the next five years. This means the non-profit corporation, which is responsible for allocating IP addresses and administering the top level of the Domain Name System, will not become independent from the U.S. Department of Commerce until at least 2011. The contract is also available as a PDF."

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The Sky is Falling

[mordors9]

Now comes the familiar mantra that is trotted out every time this subject comes up.

YOU fAIL IT?

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Absolutely... NOT

[Halvy]

I've purchased several servers, routers, switches and leased-line services from other providers to build an albeit very small corner of the Internet.

The equipment cost me well over a million dollars and I pay several hundred thousand more each year to maintain it. The circuits cost another hundred grand or so each year.

If you want to use my corner of the Internet to access the rest of it, feel free to pay me just like my other customers do and have at it.

Otherwise, screw you. I'm going home and I'm taking my network with me.

Sincerely,

Joe ISP

Well joe talk to all of your potential customers like that, and you'll go far in life.

So here are some basics.. J O E !!

InterNet is still NOT-OWNED-- except by the people..

With me so far J O E !!

If you disagree with me J O E!!.. then take it up with the miriad of organizations and groups like: the military, large corporations, and masses of individuals, like me, who will overrun and take your lines and equipment, should you get too big and then decide to take *your* network home.

Sprint and the other scum bags may have built alot of the lines, but they only lease the space it's on joe... k.. still with us..

And I, like sooo many others 'JOE', feel these companies are getting tooo bossy and acting like you-- a 'wannbe'-- JOE !!

As a result JOE of their crimes we need to confiscate their lines and equipment.

But don't worry joe, you'll never get that big, except with the way you run your mouth here!!

-- Firmely entrenched at the bottom of 'Terrible Karma'.. now I can FINALLY speak my mind freely. But since I've just posted the second of the two posts I am 'aloud' on SlashDot daily, because of my karma rating-- I am off to make /. management look even more foolish, by posting as AC, using different accounts with proxies and other sorded ways of speaking my mind :)