Target lost, Cruz missile misses: Ted's ICANN crusade is basically over An effort to disrupt the handover of critical internet technical tasks from the US government to DNS overseer ICANN appears to have petered out. The US Senate is due to take a vote Monday afternoon on a "continuing resolution" to keep the government funded through to the end of the year, taking the issue off the table prior to …
Ah, That is on purpose. If one never solves any of the issues one is ranting about, one can use politics to keep at least 2 or perhaps 3 generations of wankers and tosspots gainfully employed.
This Without anyone having to learn a single new thing for their entire career.
The European Left perfected the technique, then everyone was adopting it, and now, unfortunately for everyone, the useless tossers are being lapped by leaner and meaner creatures like AfD and Front National.
Three ACs and three standard issue commentards dive in and whitter on about US politics. The phrase "fiddling whilst Rome burned" comes to mind.
I'm amazed that the US govt appears to not take a rather important part of the internet too seriously. That apparent laissez faire attitude will surely come back to bite us all.
ICANN gets complete control.
ICANN is an ungovernable mess, who's legal department is of the opinion that ICANN staff can ignore the ICANN bylaws when they feel like it, they don't have to justify themselves and can lie about it when they feel like it with no repercussions.
The only thing leverage *anybody* has/had over ICANN was the threat of shifting the IANA contract elseware. The sane thing to do would be to transfer the IANA contract to some entity that can make threatening noises towards ICANN occasionally about awarding the contract to somebody else to keep ICANN working by their rules.
If IANA is transferred to ICANN then ICANN is forever the top body of the internet on paper, and there is no mechanism to transfer this elseware. The only way to do change this would be to create a second offical "root" and then re run the DNS wars. Does that sound absurd to you? It does to me!
You missed the bit about ICANN showing all the signs of a body who's primary function is to ensure that the pork trough is as big and full as possible regardless of anything else.
Now I think we can look forward to "revised" costs for TLDs just about anything they have a role in, and that can only mean one thing as the effects trickle down - higher costs for us to fill up their pork trough.
Trying to explain to their constituents "I had to vote to shut down the government because of something about the internet that I don't understand, can't explain to you, and you wouldn't care about if I could" is not a winner for the republican party. These guys are having enough trouble trying to figure out how to walk the line of not supporting Trump, while not not supporting him to worry about this.
If they could have made it about a hot button issue that fires up the base like abortion, maybe, but no way would they ever shut down the government over ICANN.
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