IP: NYT Article re: ICANN

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> > From Monday's Times:
>
> Critics See Internet Board Overstepping Its Authority
>
> By JERI CLAUSING
>
> WASHINGTON -- They were mysteriously appointed, they meet behind closed
> doors and they have questionable public accountability. Yet members of the
> interim board of the Internet's new oversight body are beginning to make
> decisions and shape policy that could ultimately affect everyone who uses
> the global network.
>
> *********
>
> But critics say the board is overstepping its authority and ignoring another
> mandate -- to create a transparent, bottoms-up organization. Instead, they
> say, the board is working behind the scenes with powerful international
> corporate and government interests to create a top-down hierarchy that flies
> in the face of the free-wheeling, consensus-based spirit that built the
> Internet.
>
>
> Full article at:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/06/biztech/articles/07ican.html
>
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