http://kierenmccarthy.com/2006/07/20/pressure-piles-on-us-government-to-end-net-role/ News and views on domain names, the Internet and life in general Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:11:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://kierenmccarthy.com/2006/07/20/pressure-piles-on-us-government-to-end-net-role/comment-page-1/#comment-3975 Are the ICANN Senate hearings just a waste of time? at kierenmccarthy.co.uk Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:59:12 +0000 http://kierenmccarthy.co.uk/2006/07/20/pressure-piles-on-us-government-to-end-net-role/#comment-3975 [...] What strikes me as really odd is this consciously blinkered perspective that says it is either ICANN or it is the UN. Europe, Australasia and chunk of Asia are already agreed on the UN not taking charge and have talked about creating a new flexible international model for ICANN to slot into. Even the DoC lawyer that created ICANN, Becky Burr, drew up a model that kept ICANN’s job out of the UN but help reduce the risk of a split root. [...] [...] What strikes me as really odd is this consciously blinkered perspective that says it is either ICANN or it is the UN. Europe, Australasia and chunk of Asia are already agreed on the UN not taking charge and have talked about creating a new flexible international model for ICANN to slot into. Even the DoC lawyer that created ICANN, Becky Burr, drew up a model that kept ICANN’s job out of the UN but help reduce the risk of a split root. [...]

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