[ga] EFF

[Hugh Dierker <hdierker2204@xxxxxxxxx>]

Perhaps that you are a fellow. Perhaps that I monitor the EFF, not too closely. 
 Perhaps that I am closely watching ICANN and the UN WSIS followup. And partly 
because you are either too modest or do not want to claim too much involvement. 
 Your question shows the reason for my question.  Perhaps because there is 
"nothing recent of any significance". 

What is EFF doing for the Netizen????  Clearly I am not asking so superficially 
to mean my question can be answered by reference to the Website propaganda and 
marketing. And again, I just do not know.



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From: James S. Tyre <jstyre@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Hugh Dierker <hdierker2204@xxxxxxxxx>; Accountability Headquarters 
<ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sat, June 26, 2010 10:38:51 AM
Subject: Re: [ga] NCUC

Hugh,

Would you be kind enough to give some specific examples / more details of
what you mean with respect to EFF?  There have been times, in the
somewhat distant past, when EFF has been involved in some manner in ICANN
related issues.  To my knowledge, however, there's nothing recent of
any significance.

(I am an EFF Fellow, and, as such, it's fair to say that I know more
about what EFF does than most.  But I'm not involved in every EFF
issue, am not a staff attorney, do not claim to know literally everything
that EFF does.  Perhaps you do know of something that I
don't.)

-Jim

At 09:29 AM 6/26/2010 -0700, Hugh Dierker wrote:

This constituency interests
>me.  I do not like the membership criterion but I can see it has
>its' place. http://ncdnhc.org/
>
>>The biggest problem that I am having with the idea is the
>"anti" commercial aspect. In this regard they seem to be a bit
>antagonistic toward registrants.  They also seem a little against
>any new constituencies -- as I can tell they do not want to dilute their
>stake.
>
>>In this same vein I am seeing a very "grab the headlines"
>approach by EFF.  I have not been inspired by a writing of theirs
>for quite sometime.
>>They are well funded. They are well organized. They attack wrong when
>----  well I do not really know how they decide, seems a little
>strange.  But they do nothing that I can see to get the people fired
>up.  They are not helping to organize "grass roots"
>"bottom-up" support.
>>Again it would appear they are caught in worrying about diluting their
>stake,, generally of funding.
>
>>I could use an education on this and gladly look forward to it.
>


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