Re: [ga] Emergency resolution on .xxx recall -- and the destruction of ICANN's integrity

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

  As far back I I have documented and/or can remember, there have been
no accepted "ICANN procedures" that were or are now agreed upon
by any and all of the stakeholders/users.  Hence in part why the DNSO
was
disbanded without the vote of it's than properly constituted members..

  In addition, DOC has always had oversight of ICANN as it should have
IMHO, but rarely has seen fit to take any actions contrary to ICANN's
edicts.  In this instance, although I nor any of our members have any
problem with the .xxx sTLD, we do believe it was conceived, discussed,
debated and determined in a near vacuum by a tiny fraction of
unrepresentative
ICANN "Officials" i.e. board and staff, without the consent or
acknowledgment
of any AND ALL participating and interested stakeholders/users.  Hence
such a
sTLD, regardless of it's stated purpose, is ill advised accordingly.  We
believe
in part, that this fact is why the president repuested what he did and
DOC
responded in the manner it did.

  Therefore it is in our members opinion that the selection process as
well
as many other processes employed by "ICANN" are skewed and without
proper representation of any willing or interested stakeholder/users.

  Bad process, bad result or product, plain and simple...

Richard Henderson wrote:

>    This is truly sickening.
>
> ICANN purports to be a global, bottom up organisation. It purports to
> have processes and methodology, to which all constituencies have had
> the opportunity to contribute.
>
> But on the whim of one country's government, all this can be swept
> aside.
>
> Because, in truth, ICANN is merely a US puppet. The DoC decides to
> pull the strings. ICANN jumps.
>
> This is *exactly* why i have been arguing for years that a convincing,
> global, one-member one-vote At Large of the world's internet users
> should be given authority at the heart of ICANN's mechanisms.
>
> To give ICANN global authority.
>
> To give ICANN independence from governmental interference.
>
> If the US intends to use ICANN as its front for dominating and
> controlling the Internet on its own terms, then I'm sorry, ICANN's
> mandate should be handed to someone else... ask WSIS for directions!
> But then, ICANN's mandate and very existence has always beed dependent
> on USG.
>
> On a separate note, I object strongly to right-wing conservative
> religious groups in one country telling the rest of the world what
> attitude we should have to porn and what attitude we should have to
> sex and sexual diversity.
>
> It is abundantly clear that the .xxx domain is merely a labelling
> mechanism that might help direct webmasters and the public to a sector
> of the net that concerned parents etc can lock off from their
> children. Sure it wouldn't be infallible, but its an intelligent
> agenda which has been discussed and explored, and been pursued
> according to agreed ICANN processes.
>
> It is unacceptable that policy should be driven or re-directed either
> by religious fundamentalists or by the government of a single country
> that has a right-wing moralistic agenda.
>
> ICANN loses all credibility if it just gives in to this interference
> in its own processes.
>
> It is time a large number of At Large representatives should be
> democratically elected to the heart of the ICANN Board, to demonstrate
> that ICANN is in fact a truly global and independent organisation,
> accountable not to USG, and certainly not to the religious right, but
> to the internet users of the world who actually use the internet.
>
> Yrs,
>
> Richard Henderson
> www.atlarge.org
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Danny Younger
>   To: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 5:27 PM
>   Subject: [ga] Emergency resolution on .xxx recall -- and the
> destruction of ICANN's integrity
>
>
>    From the Non-Commercial Discussion list:
> Date:         Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:32:19 -0400
> Reply-To:     Milton Mueller <[log in to unmask]>
> Sender:       Non-Commercial User Constituency <[log in to unmask]>
> From:         Milton Mueller <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject:      Emergency resolution on .xxx recall - and the
> destruction of
>               ICANN's integrity
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> Many of us have warned for years that the US's unilateral political
> power over ICANN was a problem. Too many people didn't listen...
> What is at stake here is the very model of the Internet as a private
> sector and civil society-driven institution, and as an INTERNATIONAL
> institution...
> ICANN participants must stand up for the integrity of the institution
> as a global, legitimate policy making system. One government cannot be
>
> given an arbitrary and unlimited power to reverse the result of a
> decision making process that has gone on for five years and consumed
> millions of dollars in resources, just because a domestic political
> constituency doesn't like the result...
>
> It is essential for ALAC, NCUC and other civil society
> actors to unite on this.
>
> I will be drafting a proposed short resolution. I hope to transmit it
> to these lists soon.
>
>
> Dr. Milton Mueller
> Syracuse University School of Information Studies
> http://www.digital-convergence.org
> http://www.internetgovernance.org
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