Auerbach Accuses ICANN Board of Dereliction of Duty on IP Allocation

Wed Apr 13 01:21:40 UTC 2005

>"...and hilarity ensued. Not."
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>http://www.icannwatch.org/articles/05/04/11/132201.shtml
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>- ferg

Sigh.  I am certainly not happy to see this and I must confess dismay 
that the subject rears its ugly head.  My life has been better since 
i stopped paying attention to these people hoping that they would 
sink beneath the surface of the sea.

I looked at the Cave Bear blog and saw nothing there that offered any 
kind of concise clear picture of WHAT their proposed allocation 
policy was and why it was bad.  Does someone have a good succinct 
write up?  If so please send me a pointer off list and i will do my 
best to get the word out to the folk I reach.

But yeah if you control the IP numbers you have the net by the 
jugular.  Vint Cerf sat at a table for 4 with IBM lobbyist Mike 
Nelson at dinner on march 30 at David Isenberg's F2C meeting and then 
got up and gave a very nice talk on P2P technology and extolled this 
as being the best and most existing stuff happening on the net these 
days and then THIS?  whatever THIS is?  And of course i don't know 
ANY specifics.  But there is enough bum news rumbling around not to 
have to add this on top of everything else.

But again before one starts to yell - just what is it that they want 
to do and precisely why is it bad?  Two thousand words max please  - 
preferably 500 words.  pointer please.  Off list.  One other question 
here - is there anything being talked about that could take ICANN in 
the direction of approving routing for critical transactions?  I hope 
not.

On a different subject for those who have been playing with Skype 
have a look at  http://cookreport.com/14.03.shtml   and enjoy.
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