ICANN

The talk at this month's TLUG meeting was on the politics behind the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and was actually more interesting than I expected it to be. ICANN is a big, complex bureaucracy with so many stakeholders pulling it in different directions that it is hard to imagine actual Internet users getting heard above the noise. The speaker, Evan Liebovitch, is involved with the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) which is meant to give a voice to the larger community of Internet users. Given his position, Evan was able to give an interesting view of ICANN as an insider.