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...open governance" component of the center deals with the regulation of domain names--Web site addresses--around the world that are all currently entrusted to a non-profit company known as ICANN...
...ICANN was incorporated in California and be headquartered in Los Angeles. However, says Armini, most of the work will be done over the Internet, meaning that Wilson will not be called away from Cambridge often...
Critics of ICANN...
Foremost is concern that the board of directorsof ICANN would have too much discretion inchoosing their successors...
...official position statement released lastweek, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), anInternet advocacy group, also criticized theproposal for lacking due process and free speechprotections. As ICANN would be a private entityrather than a government contractor, EFF argued,groups or corporations denied domain names wouldhave little recourse. Dyson is a board member ofEFF as well as the new corporation...