Comments on: Congress Beats Up ICANN (Part 1)

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Domain Buzz - This Week in Domaining | dot sauce | — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:03:27 +0000

[...] – Congress Beats Up ICANN, 3 Part Series: “members of the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the [...]

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Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:15:42 +0000

[...] Paul Twomey still smarting from last week’s congressional hearings? That was an embarrassment to ICANN. It seems that the only lobbying ICANN did ahead of the hearings was to get letters from Al Gore [...]

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Domain Buzz - This Week in Domaining — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:48:37 +0000

[...] – Congress Beats Up ICANN, 3 Part Series: “members of the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the [...]

By: Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:38:41 +0000

@ Colin – although I didn’t think that was well articulated by the Congressman, don’t blame the U.S. for the U.N. And we certainly don’t want ICANN to become like the U.N….which is part of the reason the JPA should be extended.

By: Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:35:37 +0000

@ Drewbert – they’ll answer it, it just may not be the complete answer you want to here. I think it’s good ICANN is doing this, but “real” answers are done live. They won’t get through all of the questions and will have time to respond accordingly at a later date with spin.

By: Drewbert

Drewbert — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:22:22 +0000

>and with full expectation of an answer either during or >after the Sydney meeting later this month.

Of course, “full expectation of an answer” doesn’t mean there’ll actually be an answer forthcoming.

ICANN is expert at not answering questions they don’t care to.

Kieran’s become very good at political double-speak since moving over to the dark side.

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NameDrive Blog » Blog Archive — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:23:27 +0000

[...] The hearings started with committee members spending two minutes on opening remarks. You can generally divide the members’ into three categories: 1. Well informed about subject matter 2. Didn’t know subject matter and admitted it 3. Didn’t know subject matter but read their staff notes and pretended like they knew about it More… [...]