Debate over ICANN reform rages on

April 22, 2002 

Nearly two months after the president of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers called for fundamental reform of the beleaguered organization, ICANN watchers at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference in San Francisco Thursday continued their high-volume debate over exactly what those reforms should be.

"There's broad consensus that ICANN hasn't worked. We need to ask: Do we need this beast?" said Jerry Berman, executive director of the Center for Democracy and Technology. 

Although no one on CFP's ICANN panel suggested scrapping ICANN altogether, all agreed that radical reform is needed. The nonprofit group, which oversees technical issues related to the Internet's addressing system, has been under fire almost since its inception for ineffectiveness and failing to take broad public input into account when making decisions.
 

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