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...University of Miami computer expert is calling on former Radcliffe College President Linda S. Wilson to resign from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN...
...Michael Froomkin, who teaches Internet law at the University of Miami School of Law, is protesting Friday's announcement that the terms of four of ICANN's original nine directors have been extended...
...profit private organization that was formed in 1998, ICANN was created with a nine-member initial board that included Wilson. ICANN is a global body that oversees the technical management of World Wide Web domain names, IP address space, root server management and other administrative Internet tasks...
...ICANN now operates with a 19-member board. Nine of the directors are part of the at-large membership, which was intended to replace the initial board...
...therefore implore members of the Harvard community who are at-large members of ICANN to vote for those who will work to make the organization more democratic. Lawrence Lessig, formerly of Harvard Law School and now a law professor at Stanford, has written eloquently of the need to defend the public interest online; one of the candidates for election in North America, Lessig would be an excellent choice for voters concerned about ICANN's exercise of public powers in a private system. Other promising candidates include Barbara Simons, former president of the Association of Computing Machinery and Karl Auerbach...