The EU is calling for ICANN to become a completely private entity. This is brought up since at the end of September the current operating agreement that ICANN works under in the U.S. will run out. Now I can understand part of why the EU wants some control but their proposal is confusing. What they want is a “G12″ a sort of Internet council. Of course these come from continents. What is confusing here is how would you decide say the European delegates? Would EU select them? Last I checked not all European countries are in the EU. So how would this be any better? Instead of the U.S. controlling ICANN (which I should point out has not caused any major problems) the EU wants it to be this farce democracy. This would create a system worse then before as nobody would really know who would have a say in what is going on. Personally I say just keep it the way it is. ICANN seems to be doing fine as it is. If the U.S. government was pulling strings I would say it was ok but its not broken why are we fixing it?
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