An article at http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010604/wr/tech_internet_domain_dc_1.html complains about the apparent turbidity of this passage from an ICANN meeting: ``The NC recommends that ICANN encourages ccTLD and gTLD Registries to delay a deployment of resolution of IDNS until such a time as the IETF has met in August,'' was just one of the messages at Monday's board meeting. I understood it fine, even with mixed tenses, and I'm not directly involved in any of it. And then the article made this genius deduction: Unless people are aware of the meaning of DNSO, UDRP, GAA, SO, ISPCP or GAC they may have well spared themselves the trouble of logging on, or venturing off to Stockholm where ICANN chose to meet this time. Well, duh. Why is this important here? Because this sort of naivety is irony. It's a tail-attatched homunculus for the failure of ICANN to understand the community it jumped up to rule. If Reuters can understand schizophrenic jargon anxiety, maybe it can understand schizophrenic leadership anxiety, and communicate its import to the internet's users. I expect to see ICANN making a lot of "well duh" discoveries of its own, and I hope it's not too late to stop them from making irreversible mistakes beforehand. --Blair "Did it work?"
