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		<title>Michael Roberts &#45; CircleID</title>
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		<dc:date>2011-09-05T08:22:00-08:00</dc:date>
		

		
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			<title> ICANN's "Unelected" Crisis (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The leaked release of the European Commission's working papers on the future of Top Level Domains highlights the impending collision between adherents of the present "multistakeholder" ICANN governance model, and an ever longer list of national governments who challenge that model. At the core of the controversy is the question of how ICANN can claim legitimacy in the DNS world when none of its Directors or Officers are elected. Even worse, its only answer, when challenged legally, is that it is responsive to its contract with an agency of the U.S. Government... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110905_icanns_unelected_crisis">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-09-05T08:22:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> The New ICANN Emerges in Seoul (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[With the loud crashing of a traditional drum ceremony and an impromptu electric guitar performance by a young Korean whose rendition of Pachabel has been downloaded sixty million times on YouTube, the 36th meeting of ICANN was kicked off this morning (Korean time) by new CEO Rod Beckstrom and his fellow Directors and assembled one thousand or so participants. ICANN has always been about change, but the atmosphere in Seoul this week is charged with a sense of new challenges and new opportunities. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20091025_the_new_icann_emerges_in_seoul">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2009-10-25T19:53:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> The Real Problem with dot-XXX (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Shakespeare has Marcellus say in Act 1 of Hamlet, "Something's rotten in the state of Denmark." ...Milton Mueller, in his recent post to this site, would have us believe that since ICANN's Board long ago agreed that ICM's application for dot-xxx registry satisfied its own criteria for a sponsored TLD, then the only explanation for all the delay is, "I'm beginning to think that ICANN's approach to TLD approval was cooked up by a demented sergeant from Abu Ghraib." Milton goes on to assert that ICM's claim on dot-xxx is protected by the 1st Amendment. If this is so, then why after more than six years of discussion, is dot-xxx still raising such a fuss? <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/real_problem_with_dot_xxx">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2007-03-14T09:58:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> The Villain in the ICANN-VeriSign Struggle is the U.S. Government (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ICANN Board Chair Vint Cerf now works for a company whose motto is, "Do No Evil." So how could Vint and his fellow board members be engaged in a massive capitulation to the enterprise greed of dot-com operator VeriSign? The story of how the Internet community got to its current impasse over the future of the ICANN-VeriSign relationship is overly complicated but the bottom line is that we are suffering from woes created by the U.S. Government with the best of intentions over the past fifteen years. And only the government has the capacity to stop equivocating and do the right thing for all of us. The road to hell is paved with good intentions... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/the_villain_in_the_icann_verisign_struggle">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2006-02-20T06:15:01-08:00</dc:date>
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