Re: [ga] Open Letter on ICANN Non-Openness

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

Danny, iliya, and all,

  I fully agree with iliya's remarks and share in his astonishment, but also 
fully recognize that ICANN]
has never fully embraced openness, transparency, and especially accountability 
which are key
areas of interest in the MOU.  The GNSO, and now the ALAC as well as some 
RALO's have
been engaged in censoring whomever they don't like personally as recent events 
regarding
same have shown/demonstrated clearly.

  Lets all hope that ICANN's staff, the GNSO, and especially the ALAC will 
cease and
disist this erant and disruptive practice as soon as possible.

Danny Younger wrote:

> Reprinted from the NCUC list:
>
> Association UNINETREF. ID. 10/2008
>
> Dear Dr. Twomey and Mr. Thrush,
>
> We are a Bulgarian association representing part of the local Internetuser 
> and business community, aimed at the introduction of BulgarianIDN domains.
> We would like to inform you that we have been denied participation inthe 
> upcoming regional ccTLD meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria. (8 â?? 10September) 
> (please see attached letter). The Russian organizers of themeeting held in 
> Bulgaria explained to us that the reason is that our organization is neither 
> a ccTLD registry nor a registrar.
>
> We would like to express our astonishment with this case, because wethought 
> that all ICANN meetings are always open â?? we have participatedin former 
> ICANN meetings, like in Los Angeles, without any problems and we will 
> participate in Cairo again. We have understood that ICANN meetings and 
> ICANN-supported meetings are open to all. We are aware at a similar regional 
> meeting in the Middle East co-organized by ICANN together with a local ccTLD 
> anyone was allowed to participate.
>
> Additionally, we are aware from the speaker and invitee lists of the event, a 
> number of entities that do not qualify as neither a ccTLD registry or a 
> registrar (for example Verisign, Affilias, ComTel, ENISA, etc.) are able to 
> participate.
>
> We would like to ask you whether is an ICANN policy to organize also non-open 
> meetings and deny participation of the local Internet community, considering 
> that the meeting is held in Bulgaria.  We believed that the ICANN meetings 
> are supposed to be for the whole Internet community.
>
> If we are unable to get a response in a timely manner, because the meeting is 
> next week, we will have little choice but to bring this up with the ICANN 
> ombudsman and the wider ICANN community.
>
> Best regards,
> Iliya BazlyankovBoard chairman
> Association UNINET
> iliya@xxxxxx
> https://www.uninet.bg
> Phone: +359 2 942 98 00
> Mobile: +359 89 999 16 90
> Fax: +359 2 943 38 02
>
>

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