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Michael wrote:
This seems to go hand in hand with the recent legislation in the U.S. basically saying that the Internet will remain deregulated here. ICANN's pushing hard for some serious stuff. They might need to get more specific and less "sales-ish" in coming months, though.
11/22/04 00:28:56
11/21/04: The Future of the Internet
ICANN pitches the internet's future by Kieren McCarthy -- ICANN - the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - which oversees the Internet in all its manificent lunacy, has just published a Strategic Plan, in which it has outlined what its direction and goals are for the next three years.
In reality though, the strategic plan is a sales pitch to the world. And it should be read by anyone who wants to know the kind of people who will be running the internet for some time to come.
As a sales pitch, it is charming, convincing and considered. And as a sales pitch it is also simplified, one-sided and vague. Its job is to persuade you that ICANN is the best choice in what could become the greatest auction in history. The prize is control of the internet. --
Its kind of scarey to consider that this thing we have become so accumstomed to is completely in someone else's control. I don't believe the internet will ever go away, but I think we have to keep an ear to the ground on where it is being steered or we may just get a nasty surprise. Remember, the Internet is by no means stable. It is developing everyday.