IP: Rocky Start to Debate Over Public Role in Internet

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com>
> To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
> Rocky Start to Debate Over Public Role in Internet
> By Andy Sullivan
>
> MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (Reuters) - An African activist who suggested that
> proposed reforms to the Internet's top standards-setting body would not
> increase public participation as much as hoped drew an angry response from
> an official on Friday.
>
> "There are limits to the amount of rubbish I can take," reform committee
> chair Carl Bildt told South African activist Alan Levin as the Internet
> Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) began a quarterly meeting
> here.
>
> The nonprofit group charged with maintaining the Internet's address system
> hopes to find ways to get the planet's 500 million Internet users more
> involved in decisions like creating new domains to provide alternatives to
> ".com."
>
> The angry exchange between Bildt and Levin illustrated the heated emotions
> surrounding the debate, which in many ways questions the very nature of
> ICANN itself.
>
> --SNIP--
>
> http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=206015
>
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