ICANN update

When Robert Mugabe is speaking for your side, that’s not a good thing.

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe spoke for the more radical opposition to U.S. control, saying Washington and its allies cannot continue to “insist on being world policemen on the management of the Internet.”

Kofi Annan shows some wisdom.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who would open the forum’s first meeting perhaps early next year in Athens, denied the United Nations wanted to assume ICANN’s day-to-day duties.

“Let me be absolutely clear: the United Nations does not want to take over, police or otherwise control the Internet,” he said. “Day-to-day running of the Internet must be left to technical institutions, not least to shield it from the heat of day-to-day politics.”