April 1, 2007
I really enjoyed the Google prank today, and CNET did well too.
First principles
I spent today in the Lisbon airport, waiting for a flight to take off. I can see from emails and blog posts that the “what is ICANN?” question is getting some thought, and that's a good sign. We need to re-examine what the organization is up to and on what basis it should be making decisions about new TLDs. There's a major process underway to define how we go about opening up new TLDs, as I've mentioned here in the past, and I'm hoping that will suggest an objective way forward that doesn't involve so many Board judgment calls.
In my eight hours in the airport, a lot of different groups of ICANN-meeting people came through the lounge as they waited for their flights.