Five Questions with David Hernand
New.net CEO weighs in on the tussle between his company and ICANN over
who controls the expansion of the Internet.
Since early 2001, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and
Names (ICANN) has had a major thorn in its side. That thorn, domain name
registry New.net, has circumvented ICANN’s process for naming new domain
suffixes to expand the Internet beyond the .com, .net and .org domains
that have been used to date. New.net has gone directly to Internet
service providers (ISPs) and made deals to allow users to access new
domains that New.net sells, and has drawn a heap of controversy its way
by doing so. Business 2.0 Online visits with New.net CEO David Hernand
to get his take on the debate surrounding the expansion of Internet
domains.
 http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,,16182,FF.html

AT-LARGE COMMITTEE RELEASES DISCUSSION DOCUMENT
The ICANN committee studying at-large membership has
released its first set of initial conclusions in a
discussion document.  The document notes the importance of
the board in the decision making process and starts with the
premise that individuals need a voice in ICANN.
http://www.atlargestudy.org/DiscussionDraftRev.5.4.htm

The row over who runs the internet is hotting up.
This week the net's ruling body re-asserted its existing policy for
managing and creating domain names on the world wide web.
It issued a stark warning to those organisations offering alternative
domain names that sit outside the net's centrally organised name system.

But critics have questioned the policy statement and say the net's
administrators should consult more widely before handing down judgement.

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1437000/1437377.stm