Re: [ga] GNSO Council: Ignoring the public, again

[Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Danny Younger wrote:

> Having listened to the entirety of today's GNSO
> Council session
An interesting side aspect is that today ICANN announced a solicitation 
for "Candidates to Develop Request for Proposals for New gTLDs"
It does seem that someone has already pre-judged the outcome and wants 
to put it into practice, for a lucrative skim of the action.
Later tonight (more likely sometime tomorrow) I hope to put up a simple 
form on my blog that I believe should be all that ICANN requires for TLD 
applicants and ought to cost all of a few pennies to evaluate and process.
By-the-way, I agree with you that ICANN's "comment" mechanism benefits 
nobody except disk drive manufacturers, like my neighbor, Seagate - the 
stuff is stored but apparently rarely read, much less considered.  And 
yes, if it were bricks thrown over a wall, it would be a waste of bricks.
There is this weird mind set in ICANN that allowing the public to post 
text is a some kind of open or transparent behaviour.  That mind set 
tends to forget that such material must be considered, and not just 
considered in a minor way at the end of the process, but rather as the 
primary and dominant input of the entire decision making process.
                --karl--