Re: [ga] chaos and confusion on this mailing list

[Andy Gardner <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 3, 2007, at 7:17 PM, Debbie Garside wrote:

> This was not helping anyone - stakeholders or ICANN policymakers.

And nothing will change until stakeholders actually get to vote for  
representatives on ICANN's board.
The whole thing went downhill exactly when a "top down" Navy man was  
put in charge of the "bottom up" ICANN process, and special  
commercial interests were allowed to block stakeholders from every  
getting representation.
8 years later and we still haven't seen any progress. We are  
powerless. This list is an outlet for our anger, because it's all we  
have left.