ICANN board member calls ICANN "the USSR of the Internet"

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ICANN board member calls ICANN "the USSR of the Internet"

04-26-2007, 09:39 AM,

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ICANN board member calls ICANN "the USSR of the Internet"

Interview with ICANN board member Karl Auerbach:

Quote:It is impossible to overrate the system that ICANN substituted in lieu of the elections we had in year 2000. The current system, the ALAC, is designed to insulate ICANN from internet users and the ALAC's closest historical analogue is the system of village soviets, regional soviets, and supreme soviet that formed the "democratic" structure of the now defunct Soviet Union.

It is amazing how much ICANN resembles the old USSR. ICANN is very much like central bureaucracy that is drawing up five year plans for the internet. And like the USSR that had a never ending problem with getting the right products to customers, ICANN has warped internet innovation in the domain name space with enough red tape to choke a Godzilla or two...

full interview: http://www.theregister.com/2007/04/24/ic...ew_lisbon/

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