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> 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<
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