[atlarge-discuss] FYI: [NewsScan] "ICANN UNDER NEW ATTACKS"

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>ICANN UNDER NEW ATTACKS
>ICANN -- the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers -- is one
>of those organizations apparently destined for continuous controversy. The
>organization recently eliminated five sitting board members from the
>18-person directorate, leading to new charges of its running a closed and
>"illegitimate" organization. Hans Klein, chairman of the Computer
>Professionals for Social Responsibility, says of ICANN's leaders: "I think
>legitimacy matters, they don't. If you kill the legitimacy of an
>organization, you put the organization at risk. ICANN has decided that
>legitimacy doesn't matter; it's done away with many of the mechanisms that
>insured its legitimacy. If people start leaving the organization, it will be
>ruined." And Michael Froomkin, another ICANN critic, says: "What's
>outrageous is that because the ICANN staff can't stand to have its actions
>questioned, it's making sure it never has to face the user community in an
>election again. In fact, in the new 'reform' plan, ICANN's insiders have put
>themselves in charge of the process that will select their successors."
>(Internet News 30 Oct 2002)
>http://www.internetnews.com/isp-news/article.php/1491291

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