[IP] Headlines about Icann news emphasize control
Begin forwarded message:
From: Richard Wiggins <richard.wiggins@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: July 2, 2005 6:42:37 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Headlines about Icann news emphasize control
Reply-To: Richard Wiggins <richard.wiggins@xxxxxxxxx>
Dave,
Yesterday I asked IP if Icann's role in the DNS is overstated in the
media -- if the media confuses Icann's management of the DNS with
managing all traffic on the Internet, and if that leads the ITU and
Europe and others to the wrong conclusion about Icann.
To my astonishment, people arose to defend Icann and its PR.
Please go to Google News and search for:
Icann
Here are the headlines you will see:
US to Retain Oversight of Web Traffic
CBS News - 2 hours ago
US not to give up Internet control
Pakistani Newspaper, Pakistan - 16 hours ago
TechSpin: US Controls Web
Red Herring, CA - Jul 1, 2005
US decision on Internet's key computers draws mixed response from ...
DetNews.com, MI - 15 hours ago
US reneges on DNS pledge
VNUNet.com, Netherlands - Jul 1, 2005
US to Retain Oversight of Web Traffic
India Daily, NJ - Jul 1, 2005
Crispy vulture beats bald eagle
Register, UK - Jul 1, 2005
Web Oversight Decision by US Gets Thrashing
TechNewsWorld, CA - Jul 1, 2005
10:25 am: US decision to retain oversight of Internet's backbone ...
Santa Fe New Mexican, NM - Jul 1, 2005
US Keeps Control Of Internet Computers
NewsNet5.com, OH - Jul 1, 2005
Now, please folks, read today's headlines -- read the text of those
headlines -- from around the world, and tell me what the world
outside the United States now thinks of Icann, and Internet
governance, and the United States.
Icann should make a statement clarifying what its role is, and what
its role should be -- and what its role is not. I believe that
statement should say that Icann's role is to resolve Internet domain
names to IP addresses, and nothing more.
/rich
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