Re: [ga] Registrants

[Hugh Dierker <hdierker2204@xxxxxxxxx>]

Andy,
 
That is a very nice knee jerk reaction with an emotional aggravated flavor.  
Everyone of sound mind would agree that it is truly an amazing calamity that 
registrants cannot even kind of remotely self organize.  The sadness of this 
truth is somehow reminiscent and similar to the US housing market of greed, 
avarice and "get what is mine" and the good of the whole be damned attitude.
 
My personal experience and witness has been with Joop, Sotiris and Danny. I 
have watched is amazement as that fervor has spilled over here to keep the 
dotcommoner from organizing so as not to take the place of the registrants 
rights.  The end fighting and lack of leadership in the registrant community 
has done more to prevent user direct participation in ICANN than any board 
member or entire board.
 
How about you address those issues and what might be done to correct the course 
of Registrant self organization.

--- On Sat, 11/7/09, Andy Gardner <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


From: Andy Gardner <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [ga] Registrants
To: "Accountability Headquarters" <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, November 7, 2009, 7:05 PM




Transparency? Personal power posturing?

The bulk of ICANN funding comes from Registrants.

We pay for the show, then we're expected to pay AGAIN by have to 
"self-organise".

We tried that once and got the bum's rush.

It's time for ICANN to acknowledge who pays all the bills, recognise they've 
been left out of the process for years, and do all the work to get them in the 
process where they should have rightfully been from day one.