Rod Beckstrom Named New ICANN CEO 26
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netczar writes "Former US cybersecurity chief Rod Beckstrom has been selected as the new ICANN president and CEO. The decision was publicly announced during ICANN's 35th meeting in Sydney, Australia on Friday. Beckstrom will be replacing Dr. Paul Twomey, who had been serving this position since March 2003 and announced his resignation earlier this year. Beckstrom recently made headlines for his sudden resignation from his post at NCSC, criticizing the lack of funding from the NSA and its move to try to 'rule over' the NCSC."
Reader darthcamaro notes a story which quotes Beckstrom as saying, "The system on [the] whole is healthy, but also strained, and part of the strains are natural and part of the democratic process. The process may be noisy, but a stable Internet is what has come out of ICANN. This is massively complex — wouldn't run well top-down. We would not reach the same balance of decisions to propagate through the network. All of us are humbled by the process. No one is in control, so everyone is in control."
ICANN the trademark policeman (Score:3, Insightful)
I hope he recognizes that ICANN is supposed to make sure that the domain system works and that ICANN is not to be a policeman doing trademark enforcement for the intellectual property protection industry or enforcing various governments' views about what is acceptable use of the net.
Thank you ICANN (Score:4, Insightful)
The process may be noisy, but a stable Internet is what has come out of ICANN.
Oh yeah. I mean, where would we be without ICANN? All of that wealth created by domain tasting & cybersquatting would never have been created.
Thank you ICANN. Thank you.
s/Thank/Fuck/g
Re:ICANN the trademark policeman (Score:1, Insightful)
It can be VERY profitable to be a policeman whose arbitrary and unchallenged decisions enrich friends and shutter enemies.
Especially when they retire.
Then, unpopular decisions can be traded for stock options, gift packages, high compensation advisory roles, etc.
Much more profitable than, say, writing a book about spiders and starfish and management style.