Posted on 10/15/2009 12:04:24 AM PDT by bogusname
POLITICAL power is rarely ceded without good reason. So eyebrows were raised last week when the US Department of Commerce decided to relax its grip on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body responsible for the naming system that ensures that when you type a web address, your browser knows where to go. In future, governments and other international organisations will be able to nominate staff to sit on one of ICANN's three newly created steering committees, something the DoC had resisted for years. "What it really means," says ICANN's chief executive Rod Beckstrom, "is that we're going global."
(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...
Ping.
A Global Post Office
ping. FWIW
lol yeppers
How soon before the un starts taxing it? How will the poor pay for it?
http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/101309_ICANN_Names_Three_New_GNSO_Council_Members
“ICANN Names Three New GNSO Council Members”
Tags: government appointments ICANN domains
By Justin Lee, October 13, 2009
SNIPPET: “(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Internet regulation body ICANN (www.icann.org) announced this week it has named three individuals to serve as non-commercial stakeholder group representatives on the new Generic Names Supporting Organization Council at its September 30th board meeting.
The appointees include Mohammed Rafik Dammak of Tunisia, Rosemary Sinclair of Australia and Debra Hughes of the United States.
The board’s structural improvements committee reviewed the applications from a range of volunteers before recommending to the full board three candidates to serve on the GNSO Council for the next two years.
The newly appointed individuals were recommended by the SIC based on their skills, experience, background, knowledge, passion and ability to help build non-commercial participation and contribute to the work of the GNSO.
The committee paid particular attention to the candidates’ ability to contribute to diversity of geographic representation on the council.”
“diversity of geographic representation on the council.”
What? No Israelis?/sarc
Thanks Cindy
They won't be able to afford the tax, so they will be afforded a "subsidy".
Just like we will be forced to buy "insurance" for our "health care" and if we can't afford to buy the "insurance" it will be "subsidized".
This is how your all-caring "government" will shove it all down your throat, whether you like it or not.
You’re welcome bogusname.
Censorship is coming.
Censorship is coming.
Censorship is coming.
Does anyone care? :(
Not if we have anything to do with it.
They will when the French break it and bring it back and want a new one.
I’ve been saying all along that it’s time for a civil war.
It creates a situation akin to licensing, where you will have to agree to legal terms and conditions just to be able to have a public IP address (needed for someone to reach a web server).
Interesting take....an appropriate use agreement for any use of the Net.
I wonder how porn will be handled, seeing as how it’s so profitable.
Or, news.
Or, how will academicians handle themselves now?
Got a Link? IPv6 has privacy issues however I was not aware of this?
ARIN is the organization that serves as a coordinator for assigning IP addresses.
from that page:
ARIN will send an invoice for the annual renewal fee approximately 60 days before the fee is due. Organizations must pay their annual subscription renewal payment by their due date in accordance with the RSA(link to PDF).
If not paid according to those terms, the address space will be subject to revocation and ARIN will no longer consider the organization a General Member in good standing. All renewal and maintenance due dates are the end of the anniversary month.
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