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ICANN Elects Peter Dengate-Thrush as New Chairman
An anonymous reader writes "Peter Dengate-Thrush, a New Zealand lawyer, has been elected unanimously as the new Chairman of the Board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
"I am delighted that my colleagues have placed their confidence in me for this challenging and important role," Dengate Thrush said.
Peter practices civil litigation, specializing in intellectual property, competition, and Internet law. He has been involved in ICANN since its inception. As a member of the Boston Working Group, he provided comment in 1998 on the early drafts of the ICANN bylaws, and he co-chaired one of the pre-formation meetings of the Intellectual Property Constituency in Wellington, New Zealand."
I expect Illya and Napoleon to already be on their way to foil T.H.R.U.S.H's evil plans to infiltrate I.C.A.N.N, no doubt to build some sort of massive death ray to blow up buildings from across the planet.
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An organization can go forward if they have someone who is involved with the industry and understands the underlying technology. If they are electing a lawyer it is pretty obvious what they consider important.
I know Peter pretty well. He one of the few sane people in the DNS mess and it's nice to see him replace the string of crazies that came before him.
Not that the chairman can do a whole lot with the pack of sharks that make up the rest of icann mind you.
Peter is a scream in real life, you'd never know he's a lawyer. I'd pay big money to see him and Berryhill on stage debating almost anything.
Now lets see if he can actually herald the creation of some new tlds.
Need Mercedes parts ?
I met Peter 3-4 years ago at a conference and all in all I think he'd be a good choice. Of course, ICANN politics and bureaucracy prevents any meaningful change. However, I'm somewhat concerned that he's never explained his role in the yahoo typosquatting incident.
Do you even lift?
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Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp and Mata Hari are on the case! His evil internet numbers racket won't stand a chance! The free world is safe from the Tyranny of Octet Supremacy!!
Under Cerf ICANN has degenerated into a politically paralyzed organization unable to pass ANY legislation. The biggest downside to this so far is the Storm worm. Storm only exists because "Domain Tasters" can register a domain for free and use it until the Tasting period expires. ICANN could fix this policy in a single meeting.
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Domain Tasting works particularly well in combination with "fast flush" DNS. FF violates RFCs and is a particularly nefarious way of covering one's tracks, but registrars are helpless to do anything about it without an ICANN policy. Again, ICANN could fix this policy issue in a single meeting.
Without Tasting and FF there would be no Storm worm, and Storm only exists due to ICANN's dysfunctional board of directors. If Dengate-Thrush cannot fix ICANN is suspect Storm will force the US government to take over ICANN, probably by executive decree, and we all know how well the US government manages things (USPS, TSA, Amtrak,
Who the fuck modded that interesting?
It's not even good.