Re: [ga] Matthew Hooker from Los Angeles ICANN meeting

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael and all,

  I would clearly and pointedly disagree that the ICA members are
as you say "like minded" in regards to DNS issues and matters, which
may be why acceptance as a BC member, ICA is having some problems
of meeting with some resistance.  And your welcome as to my earlier
comments as to the ICA having a valuable voice that is largely not heard

or appropriately recognized in the ICANN GNSO structure, such as
it is...  Therefore although I can appreciate your efforts in attempting
to
join the BC, they are significantly misguided for the ICA members.

  Of course as you may already have gathered, the GNSO constituency
model/structure has long been skewed in favor of special interest groups

which represent a very tiny segment of the Registrant community and
who's
membership rules are so arcane and restrictive, even Byzantine, as to be
far
less than open and transparent or even broadly and in some cases
specifically
accountable.

Regards,

Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 277k members/stakeholders strong!)
"Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" -
   Abraham Lincoln

"Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is
very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt

"If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B;
liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by
P: i.e., whether B is less than PL."
United States v. Carroll Towing  (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947]
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Updated 1/26/04
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div. of Information Network Eng.  INEG. INC.
ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail
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Michael Collins wrote:

> Jeffrey,
>
> You are correct that ICA cannot represent all registrants, not even
> all business registrants. However, I don?t see that as a problem We
> represent a group of mostly like-minded registrants that invest in and
> develop primarily generic domain names. ICA is not trying to become an
> ICANN constituency, just be a part of one.
>
> I am not sure that we disagree, just clarifying our position, since
> you close with a statement that is in line with our goals. Thank you
> for considering our voice to be valuable.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Michael Collins
>
> Internet Commerce Association
>
> +1. 202 657 4570
> From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Jeffrey A. Williams
>
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 6:30 PM
> To: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: icann legal; twomey@xxxxxxxxx; Peter Dengate Thrush
> Subject: Re: [ga] Matthew Hooker from Los Angeles ICANN meeting
>
> Michael and all,
>
>   Thank you for posting and exercising your responsibility for your
> members.  One of the problems with the ICA is as you correctly
> stated it, ICA primarly represents ONLY commercial Domain name
> holders AND is seemingly only interested in becoming a member of
> the BC of the GNSO.  As such, the ICA can't possibly represent
> a majority of commercial registrants or for that matter small business
>
> Individual Registrants whom are fiercly and in my view, correctly
> Independant as well as the vast majority of Domain name registrants.
> Yet the ICA is a valuble voice, all be it limited that should be heard
>
> and considered withing the GNSO and subsequently ICANN.
>
> Regards,
>
> Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 277k members/stakeholders strong!)
>
> "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" -
>    Abraham Lincoln
>
> "Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is
> very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt
>
> "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B;
> liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by
> P: i.e., whether B is less than PL."
> United States v. Carroll Towing  (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947]
> ===============================================================
> Updated 1/26/04
> CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS.
> div. of Information Network Eng.  INEG. INC.
> ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail
> jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>