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ICANN! No U CANN't!
Ted Byfield 03.10.1999
Notes about the conference "Governing the Commons: The Future of Global Internet Administration"
Aside from the "executive" setting - a fastidious array of linened tables in a Hilton meeting room just a suburban stone's throw from the Pentagon - the two-day conference Governing the Commons: The Future of Global Internet Administration felt much like a golden-age usenet group come to life: alt.conspiracy.org.icann, say. Nowhere else could one find a motley group of geeks devoted to the fascinating and frustrating project of deconstructing, disassembling, or simply destroying ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
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