bucy wrote:

The United States and Europe clashed here Thursday in one of their sharpest public disagreements in months, after European Union negotiators proposed stripping the Americans of their effective control of the Internet.

This is so fucking retarded.

Right now the stability of the Internet is basically protected by the inertia of a seriously entrenched bureaucracy. This is pretty much the only thing I can ever think of that's gained added protection from the ponderous machinations of a lot of change-resistant paper-pushers, but there it is...

The EU folks are acting (or attempting to act) based on the assumption that Icann has any interest in politics outside of their own little world. They're proposing that the operation of the TLD structure instead be turned over to a bunch of career politicians who are going to do what's best for their own political interests as opposed to what's best for the stability of the internet.

What a load of ignorant fertilizer.

RE: EU Tries to Unblock Internet Impasse