FUD<div><br></div><div>If people don&#39;t want to be confused they should probably stay off the Internet altogether.<br><div><br></div><div>Nobody&#39;s forcing anybody.</div><div><br></div><div>However the FUD stories are newsworthy and thus serve a useful function in creating awareness.</div>

<div><br></div><div>As they say no publicity is bad publicity.</div><div><br></div><div>j</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223373/U.S._gov_t_official_ICANN_plan_should_move_forward">http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223373/U.S._gov_t_official_ICANN_plan_should_move_forward</a> <br>

<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:11 PM, warigia bowman <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]"><a href="/scripts/wa.exe?LOGON=A3%3D1201%26L%3DNCSG-DISCUSS%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D4850120%26B%3D--0015174bed5200146904b6591ffc%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DISO-8859-1%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

There was an ICANN story on NPR this morning. It made it sound like the extra domain names are a big mistake, and are going to add confusion to the Internet, and force people to do defensive spending to protect that IP in cyberspace. <br>


<br>Thoughts? <br><br>Rigia<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><br>
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