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Canada Declares War on ICANN

Kieren McCarthy writes over his blog:

The fight over the dotcom contract is escalating.

I've just received a copy of a letter sent to Internet overseeing organisation ICANN from the company that runs Canada's .ca registry, CIRA. They've effectively cut all links with the organisation.

CIRA has "grown increasingly concerned with ICANN's departure from a number of its core values", the letter states. And, unsurprisingly, it finds that "the process by which ICANN renewed its dot-com agreement with VeriSign is illustrative of this departure."

It goes on to give three recommendations about accountability, transparency and fair process and then says until ICANN addresses these concerns [...]

posted by Fergie @ 3/19/2006 06:37:00 PM