FC: ICANN election results are in: The geek wins...

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/11/052229&mode=nested

   ICANN Election Results Are In: The Geek Wins
   posted by cicero on Tuesday October 10, @11:59PM
   from the what-larry-doesn't-get dept.

   The ICANN election returns are in, and Karl Auerbach will be
   representing North America. This is a well-deserved result:
   Auerbach is a longtime Net-denizen, a Cisco engineer, and a
   veteran IETFer. He also handily trounced Larry Lessig for the job,
   showing that law profs might get more attention, but geeks still have
   the votes. Most important, Auerbach has pledged to shake things up
   inside the cozy -- and still far-too-secretive -- ICANN board
   meetings. Board members were elected in other regions as well. Call us
   biased, perhaps, but it seems wrong to give the U.S. and Canada the
   same representation as Africa, a place where only 130 people on the
   entire continent voted. That's out of some 650 million residents of
   sub-Saharan Africa alone.

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