Let's talk about ICANN

Mon Dec 12 14:03:59 UTC 2005

> I'm surprised that I've yet to see any mention here on NANOG about the
> Internet Governance Forum discussions that were held at the WSIS /
> United Nations summit in Tunisia a few weeks ago.  From my reading of
> the various articles, it appears that the EU together with some
> developing nations wanted to wrest "control of the Internet" away from
> the US and ICANN. Was everyone unaware of this, or were you just
> counting on Vint Cerf to talk sense into the delegates from the other
> countries?
> 
> <http://news.com.com/U.N.+says+its+plans+are+misunderstood/200
> 8-1028_3-5959117.html>
> 
> Then there was ICANN's sudden delay of discussion/approval of .xxx:
> 
> <http://news.google.com/news?q=icann+xxx>
> 
> followed by their approval of .asia:
> 
> http://news.google.com/news?q=icann+asia
> 
> Is anyone here paying any attention to any of this?
> 
> jc

I'm on the 2006-2009 NRO Address Supporting Organization Advisory Council
(www.nro.com) (www.aso.icann.org) and was at the Vancouver meeting. There were
quite a few people from the NANOG community at the ICANN meeting in Vancouver.

I would think that ICANN is off topic for NANOG?

-M<