Ethics fight goes public at body that grants domain names

I believe it is time to further tighten up the rules that have allowed perceived conflicts to exist within our board Mr Rod Beckstrom said during a speech during an Icann meeting in San Jose Costa Rica last week This is necessary not just to be responsive to the growing chorus of criticism about Icann's ethics environment but to ensure that absolute dedication to the public good supersedes all other priorities Under the plan which Icann is putting into effect hundreds of new top-level domains -- the letters like com that follow the dot in Internet addresses -- are set to be created Is the Commerce Department going to revise its request for proposals or is Icann going to revise its bid said Josh Bourne president of the Committee Against Domain Name Abuse a group in Washington that lobbies against the expansion of the domain name system Who's going to give I hope this doesn't turn into the Internet's biggest game of chicken