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ICANN prez delivers internet vision
July 2005
In his most revealing interview since taking charge of internet
overseeing organisation ICANN in March 2003, president Paul Twomey has
accused governments looking to subsume ICANN into a UN body as "living
in a political fantasy land", while at the same time being thankful
that the internet community doesn't have tanks.
Just months before the future of the internet is decided at a world
summit in Tunisia, Twomey also tackled the US government's recent
assertion of control over the foundation of the internet, plus
internal criticism of the organisation's expanding budget and the
recent process that handed ownership of the dot-net registry to
VeriSign.
Twomey also:
* Accused some governments of being short-sighted in their aims
* Offered reform of ICANN's governmental advisory committee (GAC)
* Praised the "robust and colourful" internet community
* Called for greater interaction in ICANN's decision-making processes
* Promised that ICANN would focus on improving its core technical
functions
He also outlined how ICANN was now entering the world of
inter-governmental negotiations as the internet grows from its roots
of being an engineer and academic-created network to a global medium
with vital implications for worldwide education, information and
commerce, plus the role he expected to play in keeping ICANN's best
interests at the top of the agenda.
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