Posted 8:57 AM

ICANN can't get it right.

In one of the greatest bits of political chicanery and hypocrisy that even this thoroughly discredited group has ever attempted to foist on the public, ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) claims to have approved a framework for greater public input by forming "...local, regional and global groups, in what the organization said is a step toward more involvement from the user community in decisions affecting how the Internet is run. "

Of course, they've already removed all of the public members from the board where they would have, at least, some control. The "user community" input now will be akin to that of neighborhood associations at a city council meeting - a place to let off steam, hopefully, but not change the "important" work of the governing body!

The sooner congress recognizes its foolish error in creating this haven for megalomaniacs and reverses itself, the better.