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  • From: B <beeline AT mindspring.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: [Fwd: FC: ICANN election results are in: The geek wins...]
  • Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:10:10 -0400


Auerbach to represent North America in ICANN

I think this is a good thing.

Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
> http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/11/052229&mode=nested
>
> 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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