Re: [ga] The Disappearing Public Forum

[Joe Baptista <baptista@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's not going to be so easy this time to play pretend monopoly. With lot's
of legal liabilities.

regards
joe baptista

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Karl E. Peters <tlda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>       Yes, but you can't blame those applicants for being upset; they had
> probably already started "paying for" their approval in anticipation of a
> back room vote, regardless of public sentiment. Had it not been for the
> surprise interruption of the DOC statement, only us few would have
> ever noticed. If, as in the past, as with Chris Ambler's .web application,
> they will accept all the astounding fees and payments without refund,
> even if they are somehow unwilling or unable to allocate the TLD to the
> bidder / applicant.
>      Gambling with ICANN as proven very expensive for some good people.
> Only a few ever win in these gambles, and they were likely selected
> beforehand in a private meeting, like the awarding of .biz to a high paying
> bidder when it was already profitably operating in another root system.
> Certainly, it was not making as much then is it is on the ICANN system, but
> it was, none-the-less a legitimate business literally stolen, with full
> knowledge of its pre-existence, by ICANN and sold to someone else.
>      One would have to be very foolish to do business with ICANN, given
> their long established track record. Just like gambling in a casino, it is
> only a gamble for the player, not for the house. When will people wake up
> and understand ICANN to be as irrelevant as they really are to a successful
> and stable internet? There *are* other ways!!!
> -Karl E. Peters, President
> Top Level Domain Association, Inc.
>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [ga] The Disappearing Public Forum
> From: Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, February 06, 2009 6:55 pm
> To: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> The Mexico schedule has been published --
> http://mex.icann.org/files/meetings/mexico2009/ICANN34-MEX09-released6Feb09.pdf
>
> Total time devoted to the public forum : 2 1/2 hours
> Out of that time, likely 2 hours and twenty minutes will be swallowed up by
> hearing complaints from new gTLD applicants.
>
> I remember when Public Forums were three hours long on one day, followed by
> another hour long session the next day.
>
> I guess it doesn't matter how many letters are sent by the ALAC and GNSO
> Council on the topic of sufficient face time with the Board... nobody's
> listening.
>
>
>
>


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