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Subject: FC: Salon interviews John Gilmore: "It's time for ICANN to go"
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 10:31:54 -0400
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Reply-To: declan@well.com
To: politech@politechbot.com
Previous Politech message:
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02596.html
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http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/07/02/gilmore/index.html
It's time for ICANN to go
John Gilmore, original "cypherpunk" and all-around Internet supergeek,
explains why the organization that runs the Internet is broken.
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By Damien Cave
July 2, 2002 | John Gilmore has spent 30 years shaping Internet
culture and politics. An early employee of Sun Microsystems and a
co-founder of free software pioneer Cygnus Software (now part of Red
Hat), he has worked tirelessly to promote his civil-libertarian views
on how cyberspace should evolve. Entities as diverse as the Electronic
Frontier Foundation, the "cypherpunks" and Usenet's wacky and
subversive "alt" newsgroups can all trace their roots to Gilmore's
efforts -- and, quite often, his funding.
Gilmore has never been afraid to speak his mind on any issue, but the
politics of Internet governance are particularly close to his heart.
And right now, that means keeping a close eye on ICANN, the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. ICANN is the international
body in charge of managing the Internet's domain name system -- the
numbers and names that identify Internet addresses.
Critics from across the political spectrum have claimed for years that
ICANN is secretive, slow, inefficient and, worst of all, firmly in the
pocket of special interests. But in recent weeks, the rhetoric has
gone up a notch. Suddenly, ICANN is at a crossroads.
[...]
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