FC: Salon interviews John Gilmore: "It's time for ICANN to go"

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/07/02/gilmore/index.html
   
   It's time for ICANN to go
   John Gilmore, original "cypherpunk" and all-around Internet supergeek,
   explains why the organization that runs the Internet is broken.
   
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   By Damien Cave
   
   July 2, 2002  |  John Gilmore has spent 30 years shaping Internet
   culture and politics. An early employee of Sun Microsystems and a
   co-founder of free software pioneer Cygnus Software (now part of Red
   Hat), he has worked tirelessly to promote his civil-libertarian views
   on how cyberspace should evolve. Entities as diverse as the Electronic
   Frontier Foundation, the "cypherpunks" and Usenet's wacky and
   subversive "alt" newsgroups can all trace their roots to Gilmore's
   efforts -- and, quite often, his funding.
   
   Gilmore has never been afraid to speak his mind on any issue, but the
   politics of Internet governance are particularly close to his heart.
   And right now, that means keeping a close eye on ICANN, the Internet
   Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. ICANN is the international
   body in charge of managing the Internet's domain name system -- the
   numbers and names that identify Internet addresses.
   
   Critics from across the political spectrum have claimed for years that
   ICANN is secretive, slow, inefficient and, worst of all, firmly in the
   pocket of special interests. But in recent weeks, the rhetoric has
   gone up a notch. Suddenly, ICANN is at a crossroads.

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