[atlarge-discuss] FYI: [CNET] ICANN under Twomey to continue policy focus

[espresso@e-scape.net]

>From NewsScan Daily http://www.newsscan.com

NEW ICANN CHIEF TO CONTINUE POLICY FOCUS
Succeeding Stuart Lynn as CEO of the often-controversial Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), in-coming chief
Paul
Twomey says that in addition to focusing on technical coordination, the
organization will also have to continue its efforts to deal with the
policy
issues such as intellectual property, privacy, and law enforcement:
"The
consequences of those technical issues flow into other arenas, like
intellectual property, consumer protection, and privacy, potentially
even
into commercial relationships between infrastructure providers. The law
enforcement issues are potentially issues like identification for Whois
databases (which list information on domain name owners),
identification of
those people who are committing computer crimes, (and) ensuring that
financial scams don't take place on the Internet." Twomey, an
Australian,
has been a consultant and government bureaucrat. (CNet News.com 19 Mar
2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1028-993390.html


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