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ICANN gTLD director resigns

32 points by larrys 14y ago

His linkedin page: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-salazar/3/136/314

leeoniya 14y ago
I'm guessing somebody needed to get shitcanned for the mailing address leak, lots of serious people must have kicked their dogs that day. Of all the things $185,000 can buy, apparently Security 101 ain't one of 'em.
larrys 14y ago
Salazar's linkedin page: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-salazar/3/136/314 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-salazar/3/136/314
wmf 14y ago
His job here is done.
ktizo 14y ago
ICANN, ICANT [edit] In all seriousness though, is there any actual news about the specifics of why he resigned?
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- Rastafarian 14y ago
  There were some very shady deals around the hundreds of new TLDs.
ecaron 14y ago
ICANN's appointment of Kurt Pritz actually bodes well for the future of the [seems to be a doomed endeavor] gTLD process, given his no-nonsense approach in the previous train wreck that was the .jobs TLD (http://news.dot-nxt.com/2012/01/11/dot-jobs-could-kill-icann http://news.dot-nxt.com/2012/01/11/dot-jobs-could-kill-icann)
ecaron 14y ago
Now if only Patrick L. Jones (Senior Manager of Continuity & Risk Management) would step aside. His involvement in the gTLD continually sides with "what's best for corporations and $$" rather than "what's best for the future of the internet" (which I would argue is ICANN's first responsibility.) A list of Jones' gTLD involvement can be found at http://www.icann.org/en/about/staff/jones.htm http://www.icann.org/en/about/staff/jones.htm, and an quick example of his corporate-bias is at http://forum.icann.org/lists/jobs-phased-allocation/msg00315.html http://forum.icann.org/lists/jobs-phased-allocation/msg00315....
makecheck 14y ago
I actually wonder why they need a "director" of something that probably should have been managed more like an RFC system. It's not like there has been much proven benefit from ICANN's oversight so far. Imagine if it had been community-driven. For instance, someone proposes ".foobar" as a domain root. Various contributors then submit comments on the proposal, including suggestions on established groups that ought to manage that domain and what the limitations are on sites in the domain. Refinements are made (perhaps someone observes that ".foo" would be a term that is recognizable in more countries and something that avoids offending anyone). Finally a reasonable consensus is reached that having ".foo" is actually more valuable than not having it, and its guidelines are made public under "DNS RFC #613" or whatever. If that process can work for widespread things like protocols it can definitely work for deciding which domain roots are sensible. We don't need an ICANN.
goombastic 14y ago
I just hope he isn't setting up his own company after making the rules.

32 points by larrys 14y ago

His linkedin page: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-salazar/3/136/314

I'm guessing somebody needed to get shitcanned for the mailing address leak, lots of serious people must have kicked their dogs that day. Of all the things $185,000 can buy, apparently Security 101 ain't one of 'em.

larrys 14y ago

Salazar's linkedin page: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-salazar/3/136/314 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-salazar/3/136/314

wmf 14y ago

His job here is done.

ktizo 14y ago

ICANN, ICANT [edit] In all seriousness though, is there any actual news about the specifics of why he resigned?

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Rastafarian 14y ago
There were some very shady deals around the hundreds of new TLDs.

ecaron 14y ago

ICANN's appointment of Kurt Pritz actually bodes well for the future of the [seems to be a doomed endeavor] gTLD process, given his no-nonsense approach in the previous train wreck that was the .jobs TLD (http://news.dot-nxt.com/2012/01/11/dot-jobs-could-kill-icann http://news.dot-nxt.com/2012/01/11/dot-jobs-could-kill-icann)

ecaron 14y ago

Now if only Patrick L. Jones (Senior Manager of Continuity & Risk Management) would step aside. His involvement in the gTLD continually sides with "what's best for corporations and $$" rather than "what's best for the future of the internet" (which I would argue is ICANN's first responsibility.) A list of Jones' gTLD involvement can be found at http://www.icann.org/en/about/staff/jones.htm http://www.icann.org/en/about/staff/jones.htm, and an quick example of his corporate-bias is at http://forum.icann.org/lists/jobs-phased-allocation/msg00315.html http://forum.icann.org/lists/jobs-phased-allocation/msg00315....

makecheck 14y ago

I actually wonder why they need a "director" of something that probably should have been managed more like an RFC system. It's not like there has been much proven benefit from ICANN's oversight so far. Imagine if it had been community-driven. For instance, someone proposes ".foobar" as a domain root. Various contributors then submit comments on the proposal, including suggestions on established groups that ought to manage that domain and what the limitations are on sites in the domain. Refinements are made (perhaps someone observes that ".foo" would be a term that is recognizable in more countries and something that avoids offending anyone). Finally a reasonable consensus is reached that having ".foo" is actually more valuable than not having it, and its guidelines are made public under "DNS RFC #613" or whatever. If that process can work for widespread things like protocols it can definitely work for deciding which domain roots are sensible. We don't need an ICANN.

goombastic 14y ago

I just hope he isn't setting up his own company after making the rules.