No real risk?
No one can?
So all of those senators are idiots?
ICANN Transition Even Endangers ‘.gov’ and ‘.mil’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3469586/posts
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/download/09-14-16-rosenzweig-testimony.
ICANN transition insider Paul Rosenzweig warns:
1. Foreign powers will “indisputably have increased influence”.
2. Transition a “leap in the dark”.
3. ICANN planning to move overseas. [and ICANN lied]
4. ‘.gov’ and ‘.mil’ “not assured by any enforeable mechanism”. [and ICANN lied.]
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There was a slick lobbying campaign in DC — that’s why this appears so harmless:
ICANN’s Secret Plot: rigged oversight, designs on .mil, $2.5 mil in lobbying
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3471830/posts
FR Exclusive
Condi Rice and Madam Albright are both tied to the $2.5 million lobby effort to get ICANN’s internet ‘transition’ passed. [And evidence of ‘walking around money’.]
According to professional witness testimony this lobby effort was a ... pack ... of ... lies. [This exclusive uncovers all of that.]
“Without [free speech protection] ICANN risks becoming an unregulated monopoly with no effective outside oversight and control.”
— Paul Rosenzweig [professional witness at latest ICANN hearing]
That’s the fastest summary I’ve found yet:
... a “monopoly with no effective outside oversight”.
[snip]
Not a single plausible scenario about real potential events with real impact.
Even in the most outlandish scenario where ICANN were to eliminate .mil and .gov, all US name servers could add them as independent domains.
Either this man does not understand the internal workings, or he has another agenda.
No more so than they are today.
They have over 100 "stakeholders" who govern them.
While they can technically act against those stakeholders, the stakeholders have ALL the marbles.
Transport. All the name servers. All the websites.
ICANN is little more than a gentlemans agreement to be a clearing house for registration of names and the IP addresses they resolve to.