September 2009
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Post JPA - tempered happiness
The Affirmation gladdens me. The Affirmation worries me. The Affirmation makes me wonder what is next.
I am of course referring to the Affirmation of Commitments between the United States Department of Commerce (DoC) and ICANN. In the respect that the US is loosening its grip on ICANN a little, this is a good thing. Symbolically, of course it is gigantic - ICANN no longer sends its reviews...
Civility, the new PC
I try to be PC. I try to be civil. But I don’t believe in either. In fact I think the requirement to be either PC or civil, which is becoming more and more a hallmark of US interactions, is dangerous and a really bad idea. And it is an idea that is taking grip of ICANN.
If your comments make someone uncomfortable, they aren’t civil.
If your comments drive someone else to...
Feelings about ICANN
I get irritated at ICANN. Even angry sometimes. But was reminded yesterday of what it is like for those who loathe ICANN. I spent a few hours as an invited panelist at the ITU in Geneva and met a few people whose hatred foams. I should note these were not ITU staff, they are ok. But it was some of the ITU delegate types and some who serve them.
I had expected a techno-political meeting on a...
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Marked by the ICANN Commercial Stakeholder Group
The issue of this blog is that I was named for unethical behavior by ICANN’s Commercial Stakeholder Group, the CSG. Being as brief as possible, I want to take the complaint seriously, explore it, and decide for myself whether I think it has any validity. The reader is invited to come to their own conclusions.
On 3 September 2009 the CSG called a Point of Order during a GNSO Council...
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Conspiracies, secret agendas, ICANN and a...
A whole lot of people I talk to think that there is all sorts of skulduggery and plotting that goes inside ICANN. There are people who think that if we could but see what goes on in internal email lists the way we see what goes on in volunteer lists, we would be shocked. That if we could but see behind the ICANN curtain we would see all sorts of mean nasty stuff going on.
This may be nothing...
Freedom not Fear – Stop the Surveillance Mania -...
Passed on from the Privacy Coalition
What are you doing on this day? Please think about organizing something in your city on the same weekend. It doesn’t have to be a demonstration - last year, other groups did privacy parties, discussion events, flashmobs and more. All details for getting involved are below. Please forward this call to others also. ...
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Torture by the USA
Normally I love euphemisms. This time, I think they are part of the problem.
Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, indeed. Torture by any other name would smell just as foul. I wonder why they never created an acronym for it to make it seem less offensive still - how about EITs?
Me, I will just call it torture. And while I agree that there is a scale of lesser to greater torture, it is still...