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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