Re: [ga] The Disappearance of ALAC's Forum Archives

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sotiris and all former DNSO GA members or other interested stakeholders/users,

  Your most likely correct in your evaluatiaon/remarks below, Sotiris.
But there inlies the crux of the problem, doesn't it?

Sotiris Sotiropoulos wrote:

> Richard et al.,
>
> Why bother pointing any of this out?  Do you really think anyone in
> ICANN (ALAC or not) gives a s**t?  I'd be surprised if any of them even
> deign to respond to your observations, let alone consider any corrective
> measure(s).  LOL!
>
> Sotiris Sotiropoulos
>
> Richard Henderson wrote:
> > I thought I would look back at the contributions anyone had taken the
> > time and trouble to send to one of the ALAC forums in 2004, and to
> > analyse how much of a "graveyard" the ALAC forums had become.
> >
> > First I went to:
> > http://forum.icann.org/alac-forum/
> >
> > 15 posts between Oct 16 and Feb 16 (if you exclude spam). That is barely
> > one post a week (and over half of those were from Danny Younger or myself).
> >
> > So then I clicked on the link on that page which says: "Messages posted
> > prior to 1 Oct 2004". This took me here:
> > http://forum.icann.org/old-alac-forum/
> >
> > Now I thought I could read through all the older messages which I and
> > others had sent prior to Oct last year.
> >
> > I clicked on:
> > Comments regarding Domain Name Registration Issues. But oh-oh... "Page
> > cannot be found"
> >
> > I clicked on:
> > Comments regarding WHOIS. Oh-oh again... "Page cannot be found"
> >
> > I clicked on:
> > Comments regarding SPAM. Well oh-oh... "Page cannot be found"
> >
> > I clicked on:
> > Comments regarding IDNs... oops, no I didn't... no comments were ever
> > submitted so there is no link
> >
> > I clicked on:
> > Comments regarding New TLDs. And oh-oh... "Page cannot be found"
> >
> > I clicked on:
> > Comments regarding WIPO. Same again - oh-oh... "Page cannot be found"
> >
> > I clicked on:
> > Comments regarding WSIS. Guess! Oh-oh... "Page cannot be found"
> >
> > I clicked on:
> > Comments regarding Registry Service Changes... Yawn, oh-oh... "Page
> > cannot be found"
> >
> > I clicked on:
> > Comments regarding Verisign. Dur - oh-oh... "Page cannot be found"
> >
> > I clicked on:
> > Miscellaneous Comments. Any chance here? Nope, oh-oh... "Page cannot be
> > found"
> >
> > I clicked on:
> > Comments regarding At Large Organizing. Thousands of posts here surely,
> > but no, oh-oh... "Page cannot be found"
> >
> > I clicked on:
> > Two other links but all roads led to: "Page cannot be found"
> >
> > In short, it seems as if all the posts submitted to the ALAC forum prior
> > to October 2004 have *VANISHED* in the twinkling of an eye. Please could
> > we have them back? I think it is widely accepted that messages sent to
> > the ICANN's various mailing lists and fora should be archived and
> > available for review in an open and transparent fashion.
> >
> > I admit that the ALAC forum is a graveyard. But we should still be able
> > to go and lay flowers, and remember, and say a little prayer for the At
> > Large. Does this mean that one day any other ICANN archive can just be
> > removed and disappear without trace?
> >
> > Yrs,
> >
> > Richard Henderson
>
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