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ICANN Board Election Results

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the you-can't-always-get-what-you-want dept.

Soko writes "One American on the ICANN board so far, folks. Newsbytes has this report. " We could do worse than Vint Cerf, but there's still some concern among U.S. polticians that "we" don't have enough representation. From the story: "House Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley, R-Va., last week said that it would be 'unfortunate' if the United States were underrepresented on the ICANN board. Because the United States still has the majority of Internet users and businesses and because of the nation's leadership role in inventing and promoting the Internet, the US should be well represented on the ICANN board, he said."

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  1. What really worries me about ICANN... by Thalia · · Score: 5

    Isn't that there is only one American on the board, but that there are no representatives of the actual users of the Internet on the board. Every one of the elected members represent large Telcos. Vinton Cerf is an MCI WorldCom vice president. His point of view is that of a large corporation. This also applies to the remaining members.

    On the other hand, according to ICANN's web page, the Board of ICANN will be composed of nineteen Directors, nine At-Large Directors, nine to be nominated by Supporting Organizations, and the President/CEO (ex officio). This election was for the nine members nominated by Supporting Organizations. So there is still time to get some representation for actual techies onto the ICANN board.

  2. Male or female? by Wohali · · Score: 5
    Gotta love MSNBC's attention to detail:

    The hacker, who also altered a handful of government Web sites in recent days, says he expects to be arrested soon.

    Yet it seems obvious to me from flipz's first crack on attrition.org that flipz is a woman.

    Just another example of gender bias in the media. out

    --
    "But always she's the spectre of uncertainty I first endured, then faded, then embraced..."
  3. *yawn* by Enoch+Root · · Score: 5
    Sorry, guys. I know it's Microsoft, and it's always fun to gloat about the Man getting cracked. but website defacing has long since stopped impressing me. It's just a bunch of opportunistic kids who do it because they can even though they fail to understand what they're doing. This sort of exposure merely inflates their undeserving ego.

    I mean, Slashdot was cracked before. So that hardly proves anything.
    "Knowledge = Power = Energy = Mass"

  4. Re:cracked? by rde · · Score: 5

    I suggest 'fucked'. For two reasons.
    1. It's probably the only chance for most of these kiddies to fuck anything.
    2. There's something about the headline "Microsoft Well and Truly Fucked" that appeals.
    3. Three. Three reasons. When was the last time you got to rant at someone saying "they're fuckers, not crackers!"?