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Karl Auerbach — ICANN the USSR of the Internet

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the back-in-the-ussr dept.

gnaremooz writes to tell us that The Register recently sat down with Karl Auerbach, the last publicly elected member of the ICANN board, and discussed some of the more recent developments. "Perhaps my main point of view regarding what I want to do for the net is expressed in my presentation [PPT] "From Barnstorming to Boeing - Transforming the Internet Into a Lifeline Utility" (speakers notes avilable [PDF]). I've long been interested in making the net a solid utility, and I have a great deal of sympathy for the folks who have to go out and fix things at 3am. I'm very interested in building tools for those folks."

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  1. Like the USSR? We could only be so lucky... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Before tagging this one flamebait, please hear me out.
    If ICANN was indeed a totalitarian system, then why do we have so many registrars and so little control over them?
    How many registrars are in China, and will respond as if they don't speak English when someone from the US tries to complain to them?
    With the exception of the recent problem with registerfly, can anyone name an action that ICANN has taken against anyone?
    At best, ICANN resembles Russia as it is now - a poorly regulated market-based system. Some people are making lots of money on the system (some even are doing it in an honorable fashion), and lots of people are still losing. But considering how few controls are actually in place, it really is an insult to Soviet Russia to compare ICANN to the Kremlin.

  2. Hmmm by renegadesx · · Score: 1, Interesting

    So in ICANN.. ODF uses you??

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