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ICANN Elects Peter Dengate-Thrush as New Chairman 28
An anonymous reader writes "Peter Dengate-Thrush, a New Zealand lawyer, has been elected unanimously as the new Chairman of the Board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
"I am delighted that my colleagues have placed their confidence in me for this challenging and important role," Dengate Thrush said.
Peter practices civil litigation, specializing in intellectual property, competition, and Internet law. He has been involved in ICANN since its inception. As a member of the Boston Working Group, he provided comment in 1998 on the early drafts of the ICANN bylaws, and he co-chaired one of the pre-formation meetings of the Intellectual Property Constituency in Wellington, New Zealand."
Obligatory Man from U.N.C.L.E. reference (Score:5, Funny)
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THRUSH making inroads (Score:3, Funny)
Watchout! He is a lawyer! (Score:2)
An organization can go forward if they have someone who is involved with the industry and understands the underlying technology. If they are electing a lawyer it is pretty obvious what they consider important.
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How about you do some research before you just bash the guy?
First decent icann chairman, ever (Score:5, Interesting)
Not that the chairman can do a whole lot with the pack of sharks that make up the rest of icann mind you.
Peter is a scream in real life, you'd never know he's a lawyer. I'd pay big money to see him and Berryhill on stage debating almost anything.
Now lets see if he can actually herald the creation of some new tlds.
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But the changes will take time.
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Just as a matter of curiosity, if he's good and at odds with most of the rest of them, how did he get elected?
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As long as they don't allow a period of time in advance for trademark and current domain holders to register corresponding domains in the new TLD. What's the point in having a new TLD if it just becomes a copy of
Sure, I can understand why Ford wouldn't want the owners of ihateford.com to register ford.new when it comes out. So, instead they lobby for a 30-day window or whatever so that they can grab ford.new before anybody else can
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Parent Post contains Porn Link (Score:1, Informative)
Will Dengate-Thrush stop Storm? (Score:3, Interesting)
Domain Tasting works particularly well in combination with "fast flush" DNS. FF violates RFCs and is a particularly nefarious way of covering one's tracks, but registrars are helpless to do anything about it without an ICANN policy. Again, ICANN could fix this policy issue in a single meeting.
Without Tasting and FF there would be no Storm worm, and Storm only exists due to ICANN's dysfunctional board of directors. If Dengate-Thrush cannot fix ICANN is suspect Storm will force the US government to take over ICANN, probably by executive decree, and we all know how well the US government manages things (USPS, TSA, Amtrak,
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Maybe if a lot of people hadn't pushed so hard to "internationalize" DNS manag
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Maybe if a lot of people hadn't pushed so hard to "internationalize" DNS management and just left well enough alone, we'd not be having these problems.
Are you forgetting the US Corporation that took over Internic registration and policy (from SRI)? It was worse than ICANN, charging $100 per domain per year, hanging on to expired domains and auctioning them for a profit, not letting domain holders move to another registrar weeks before a domains was to expire... That corporation was Network Solutions. Yes, Verisign did purchase and spin-off NS, but it retained their core policies and continues to leverage its authority over registrars, fee-wise and other
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That would be because nobody had heard of the Internet back in 1990...
Try it today and I guarantee that it will become VERY political. I'm sure that back when the Secretary of Commerce and Labor was regulating ship-to-shore transmissions and police bands it was a very non-political task. The FCC of today is a completely different story - largely because the stakes have risen.
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Icann was created out of thin air and staffed by the US Government. Staffed with poeple who knew absolutely nothing about the DNS. That was supposed to be a feature, not a bug. Of course it didn't turn out that way.
The US Government retains, as it always has, oversight over icann. Not that that does much good mind you.