- September 26, 2007
Today's newspaper brought an interesting reflection on the
troubled state of our national government.
The headline is "Copy of Magna Carta to Be Sold".
The Magna Carta was born in year 1215 and it guaranteed many fundamental rights.
Those same rights are among those that our president has trampled into the mire.
This copy of the Magna Carta used to reside in the US National Archives.
Now it is being auctioned to the highest bidder.
It seems an appropriate, but sad, mirroring of reality...
http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000326.html
- September 22, 2007
At the August 14 meeting of ICANN's board ICANN's board agreed to cover the expenses of
the soon-to-be former Chairman of the Board to attend
the IGF meeting in
Rio de Janeiro.
That former Chairman will have no legal relationship to ICANN; neither
a director nor an officer nor an employee.
Yet ICANN's voted to give this former chairman the power
"to speak on behalf of ICANN".
Absent a legally cognizable relationship this power is a non sequitur, an oxymoron.
And it could prove to..
http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000325.html
- September 7, 2007
Today ICANN put out a request for a contractor to add yet another
layer of complexity, expense, delay, and unnecessary bureaucracy to
the ICANN's "new Top Level Domain" process.
One can only wonder how the statement of work for this contactor was
generated in advance of ICANN completing its new TLD criteria project.
Is this yet another instance of ICANN's "staff" simply doing what it
wants to do and ignoring ICANN's board and the community of internet users
There is definitely more.
http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000324.html
- September 3, 2007
ICANN has recently collected comments for yet another study of when, if ever, it will charter any new top level domains (TLDs) for the internet.
It is bad enough that ICANN has stalled and stalled and stalled - for nearly a decade - on what ought to be a relatively easy task.
(As I have written before, ICANN should merely validate that an applicant for a TLD will adhere to broadly accepted written technical standards and practices relating to the operation of domain name servers. ...
http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000323.html
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