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Auerbach to represent North America in ICANN

I think this is a good thing.

Declan McCullagh wrote:
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> http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/11/052229&mode=nested
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>     ICANN Election Results Are In: The Geek Wins
>     posted by cicero on Tuesday October 10, @11:59PM
>     from the what-larry-doesn't-get dept.
> 
>     The ICANN election returns are in, and Karl Auerbach will be
>     representing North America. This is a well-deserved result:
>     Auerbach is a longtime Net-denizen, a Cisco engineer, and a
>     veteran IETFer. He also handily trounced Larry Lessig for the job,
>     showing that law profs might get more attention, but geeks still have
>     the votes. Most important, Auerbach has pledged to shake things up
>     inside the cozy -- and still far-too-secretive -- ICANN board
>     meetings. Board members were elected in other regions as well. Call us
>     biased, perhaps, but it seems wrong to give the U.S. and Canada the
>     same representation as Africa, a place where only 130 people on the
>     entire continent voted. That's out of some 650 million residents of
>     sub-Saharan Africa alone.
> 
> Politechnicals may want to post responses to:
> http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/11/052229&mode=nested
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