The Internet Governance Project's Milton Mueller filed an amusing dispatch after ICANN's gala on Tuesday night, a lavish dinner that has become a much anticipated part of the organization's meetings:
"My perspective on this was best encapsulated by a remark made by John Berryhill, a domain name lawyer, at the Marrakesh, Morocco meeting. As we finished a huge meal and moved on to see dozens of Berber horsemen shooting rifles, setting off fireworks and rustling camels he deadpanned, "Yeah. This is the proper way to run a computer addressing system."
Mueller goes on to write that the policy-forming aspect of the Lisbon, Portugal conference "has been anything but fun." Read more here.
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