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		<title>Who should control the Internet?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is going to be a particularly crazy year in terms of Internet policy and governance, maybe even more than so than 2005, when the World Summit on the Information Society happened. 
NPR used the launch of the new gTLD program last week to cover the other big issue &#8211; actual governance of the Internet. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2012/01/15/who-should-control-the-internet/</link>
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		<title>My analysis of the broken ICANN culture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote an extensive review of the dot-jobs saga earlier this week on .Nxt called: The case study that could kill ICANN.
This afternoon, I saw the Stephane van Gelder had referenced it in a blog post: What ICANN is doing wrong.
I wrote a lengthy response to Stephane&#8217;s post, but for some reason it repeatedly could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2012/01/13/my-analysis-of-the-broken-icann-culture/</link>
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		<title>Threatening faxes, dot-xxx and an angry Vint Cerf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the more bizarre situations I have found myself in while covering domain name system overseer ICANN, both outside and inside the organization, was at the Vancouver meeting in December 2005. 
It was a particularly difficult meeting. For one, ICANN was under intense scrutiny because it was about to sign an extension to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2011/05/14/threatening-faxes-dot-xxx-and-an-angry-vint-cerf/</link>
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		<title>ICANN begins to find its feet with published Board materials</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Credit where credit&#8217;s due, the disclosure of Board materials of the organisation that oversees the domain name system, ICANN, has greatly improved since its first and woeful effort.
The materials for a special Board meeting held in September over the &#8220;new gTLD&#8221; process are clear, organised and understandable. They also help to publicly demonstrate the large [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2010/10/29/icann-finds-feet-board-materials/</link>
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		<title>ITU Plenipot: Happy talking, talking, happy talk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the 1990s, on Channel 4 in the UK, the Pakistani team game Kabbadi was shown Sunday mornings for several hours. The only explanation can be that the broadcasting rights were cheap.
Kabbadi is a silly but oddly fascinating game. A bunch of middle-aged, overweight men stand at opposite ends of what looks like a small [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2010/10/20/itu-plenipot-happy-talking-talking-happy-talk-pp10/</link>
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		<title>Sex.com sold (again) for $13m</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A set of three documents filed in California Bankruptcy Court earlier this week reveal that the world&#8217;s most valuable domain name &#8211; Sex.com &#8211; has been sold for $13m, just one million dollars more than it was sold for back in January 2006.
The tale of Sex.com is a fascinating and complex one (I wrote a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2010/10/20/sex-com-sold-again-for-13m/</link>
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		<title>ITU Plenipot: Old men and young women</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The International Telecommunication Union is a walking contradiction.
There are many things wrong with the organisation: its closed nature; its budgeting; its out-of-date and out-of-control procedures – and yet not only is the ITU aware of this, but there are formal proposals here in Guadalajara to make changes to fix many of them.
The ITU is stuck [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2010/10/19/itu-plenipot-old-men-and-young-women-pp10/</link>
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		<title>ITU Plenus Potens: Locked in a room, locked in time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The International Telecommunication Union is a walking contradiction. 
I’m here in Guadalajara, Mexico at the organisation’s Plenipotentiary – a meeting it holds every four years to decide the strategic direction of the ITU.
Here’s what you need to know about the “Plenipot” first off: it goes on for three weeks. Yes, three weeks. It used to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2010/10/17/itu-plenus-potens-locked-in-a-room-locked-in-time/</link>
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		<title>Is ICANN&#8217;s independent review dead in the water?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have avoided the meetings of the Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT) into ICANN for a few months because it was so incredibly frustrating to listen to 60 minutes of people organising hotel rooms in different parts of the world while the ICANN Board and staff ran rings around them. 
But the meeting popped [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2010/09/29/is-icanns-independent-review-dead-in-the-water/</link>
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		<title>Postel Award goes to Dr Jianping Wu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Missed this last week: the Internet Society (ISOC) has handed out its annual Postel Award, which honours those who have made outstanding contributions to, broadly, the Internet.
The winner this year &#8211; awarded at the IETF meeting in Maastricht on Wed 28 Jul &#8211; was Chinese technologist Dr Jianping Wu (left). Dr Wu received the award [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2010/08/02/postel-awards-goes-to-dr-jianping-wu/</link>
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