[governance] A domain by any other name - Jonathan Zittrain in The Guardian

[David Goldstein]

Hi all

An interesting take on the role of ICANN by Jonathan Zittrain in The Guardian this week is below. Plus a plug for my new website, well upadated and with a new domain name. See http://technewsreview.com.au/

I've also got a free mailing list with a comprehensive coverage of domain name issues, governance, censorship, crime, internet use and more available. See http://aeternus.hellohost.com/mailman/listinfo/internetnews_internews.tv to subscribe. It's more comprehensive than the website.

Cheers
David


A domain by any other name
Jonathan Zittrain

October 4, 2006 11:16 AM

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has a budget of $30m a year, dozens of staff and few friends. It manages some aspects of the domain name system, which maps locations such as www.guardian.co.uk to the more basic (yet more difficult to remember) numbers that identify whose computer is where on the internet.

What Icann does is seen as important by many in the "internet governance" community, including diplomats and some academics. They're wrong. Control over domain names is too casually taken to mean control over the internet itself, and Icann doesn't even exercise much control over domain names. So why do people even bother to dislike or fear it?

See http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jonathan_zittrain/2006/10/jonathan_zittrain.html for the rest of the article.

Cheers
David

--------- 
David Goldstein
 address: 4/3 Abbott Street
           COOGEE NSW 2034
           AUSTRALIA
 email: Goldstein_David @yahoo.com.au
 phone: +61 418 228 605 (mobile); +61 2 9665 5773 (home)
 
"Every time you use fossil fuels, you're adding to the problem. Every time you forgo fossil fuels, you're being part of the solution" - Dr Tim Flannery





	

	
		
____________________________________________________ 
On Yahoo!7 
Messenger: Plug-in the fun with handy plug-ins 
http://au.messenger.yahoo.com 

____________________________________________________________
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
     governance at lists.cpsr.org
To be removed from the list, send any message to:
     governance-unsubscribe at lists.cpsr.org

For all list information and functions, see:
     http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance