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[ga] Just Punt the hard ones XXX & Whois
- To: GA <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: [ga] Just Punt the hard ones XXX & Whois
- From: Hugh Dierker <hdierker2204@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:06:54 -0700 (PDT)
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Why doesn't ICANN set up a voting mechanism so they can just put the hard questions and actions to a vote.
On point this article;
http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2006-09-20T194751Z_01_N20266380_RTRIDST_0_TECH-ICANN-COMMERCE-COL.XML&archived=False
One area of potential conflict between the U.S. government and ICANN is the future of "Whois" databases, directories in which Web site owners identify themselves. The databases are publicly available on the Internet and allow anyone to see who owns a domain name
and,
Under the existing agreement, the U.S. government can control domain name policies, and is believed to have played a role in ICANN's refusal to create a ".xxx" domain for pornography sites this year. The European Commission accused U.S. officials of political interference in the decision. Kneuer
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