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Roberts: U.S. Government is the Villain in the ICANN-VeriSign Struggle

Michael Roberts writes over on CircleID:

ICANN Board Chair Vint Cerf now works for a company whose motto is, “Do No Evil.” So how could Vint and his fellow board members be engaged in a massive capitulation to the enterprise greed of dot-com operator VeriSign?

The story of how the Internet community got to its current impasse over the future of the ICANN-VeriSign relationship is overly complicated but the bottom line is that we are suffering from woes created by the U.S. Government with the best of intentions over the past fifteen years. And only the government has the capacity to stop equivocating and do the right thing for all of us.

posted by Fergie @ 2/20/2006 08:05:00 AM