[87254] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Let's talk about ICANN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Mon Dec 12 09:04:27 2005
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:03:59 -0500
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> I'm surprised that I've yet to see any mention here on NANOG about the
> Internet Governance Forum discussions that were held at the WSIS /
> United Nations summit in Tunisia a few weeks ago. From my reading of
> the various articles, it appears that the EU together with some
> developing nations wanted to wrest "control of the Internet" away from
> the US and ICANN. Was everyone unaware of this, or were you just
> counting on Vint Cerf to talk sense into the delegates from the other
> countries?
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> <http://news.com.com/U.N.+says+its+plans+are+misunderstood/200
> 8-1028_3-5959117.html>
>=20
> Then there was ICANN's sudden delay of discussion/approval of .xxx:
>=20
> <http://news.google.com/news?q=3Dicann+xxx>
>=20
> followed by their approval of .asia:
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> http://news.google.com/news?q=3Dicann+asia
>=20
> Is anyone here paying any attention to any of this?
>=20
> jc
I'm on the 2006-2009 NRO Address Supporting Organization Advisory =
Council
(www.nro.com) (www.aso.icann.org) and was at the Vancouver meeting. =
There were
quite a few people from the NANOG community at the ICANN meeting in =
Vancouver.
I would think that ICANN is off topic for NANOG?
-M<
