Re: [ga] Strong Arm Tactics

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

  Your remarks bespeak of "Walk softly but carry a big stick".  With
Micheals remarks, his big stick is the strategic plan of it's ill
contrived
mission, which he may be carrying under a coat of ignorance so as to
propagate further mythical beliefs and thereby encourage increasing
ignorance.  Well I nor any of our members are buying today Michael!
Nice try, no cigar, again...

Hugh Dierker wrote:

>    It is important that we see a lie. It is impossible that this man
> has not seen what he claims to have not seen. But perhaps it is more
> important that he relies upon the structure of ICANN to have not made
> this .net thing public so that he can set himself in a cloak of
> ignorance.
> Openness and transparency is a new (or is it knew) watchword that we
> must damn well live with and this man is belonging in 1960s era North
> Korea. Strong Arm Tactics are often masked in the guise of ignorance.
> A man who speaks softly probably has no conviction.
>
> Eric
>
>
> Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Michael and all former
> DNSO GA members or other interested
> stakeholders/users,
>
> The real war as you have decided to make your argument in military
> terms which is somewhat disturbing in and of itself, is
> accountability.
> ICANN must become directly accountable to any and all interested
> stakeholders/users in any and every aspect. Sense ICANN's inception
> and even before you became involved Michael I have called for as
> have all of our members and stakeholders/users around the world
> have as well, that any policy, practice and the ICANN BoD or
> any other ICANN "Official" be directly accountable to the
> stakeholders/users. Sense ICANN's very beginnings, it has not
> been accountable, nor has it's Board members ect. Hence, ICANN
> has delved into many "Mission Creeps" and mishandled it's financial
> affairs on more than one well known occasion...
>
>
>
> Michael D. Palage wrote:
>
> > Danny:
> >
> > Until I see the proposed .NET contract which has not yet been
> posted,
> > I will
> > withhold any detailed comment. However, I believe you raise a very
> > valid
> > question, and I share your concern about ICANN adopting different
> > standards
> > to treat similarly situated parties.
> >
> > One of the reasons I made ICANN 's Strategic Plan Process a key
> focus
> > of my
> > efforts in a potential second term, is that during my many years
> > involved in
> > the ICANN process I have seen people focus all their efforts to win
> a
> > single
> > battle, while unbeknownst to them they were actually losing the
> bigger
> > war.
> > As I stated previously, I share your concerns about the apparent
> > arbitrariness of the .75 cent in connection with other similarly
> > situated
> > gTLD registries. I believe questions needs to be asked when a
> > draft/final
> > contract is posted.
> >
> > I believe the common concern we share is making sure that ICANN does
>
> > not
> > stray from its core mission and values. A natural downward pressure
> to
> >
> > inhibit mission creep is a limited budget. However, since there is
> > nothing
> > that would prevent ICANN from imposing this .75 cent on all gTLD
> > registries,
> > would it not be in the best interest to win the war ("preventing
> ICANN
> >
> > mission creep") to focus on meaningful input/enforcement mechanisms
> > with
> > regard to the Strategic Plan?
> >
> > Best regards,

Regards,

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