Re: [ga] Roberto Gaetano on ALAC Reform

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

I also, as are and have been the vast majority of our members in agreement
with Karls response here to Vittorio's skewed and misconceived approach.
Although once upon a time, Karl was skeptical of such due to verification
reasons.  Those arguments have already been vetted and are unlikely
to bare ripe fruit however.

It is a shame and a sham to the stakeholders/users of the internet,
regardless of country of origin that the suggestion Vittorio has made
would come out of the ALAC, which as Richard, myself and others
have repeatedly pointed out is an instrument of the ICANN BoD
and staff rather than a viable structure for stakeholers/users to
actively, effectively and above all individually participate in policy
determination.  The north american stakeholders/users are not
*Special* as Vittorio's remarks seem to indicate, and given the
importance of the internet as a means for effecting commerce
internationally, excluding any or all stakeholders/users as Vittorio
suggests is a form a censorship that is unfairly and unnecessarily
belligerent and discriminatory in nature.  I hope Vittorio will
reconsider and recant his suggestion forth with.  But some how
I doubt that he will...

After all, isn't the "internet for everyone" as Vint is famous for
saying?

kidsearch wrote:

> Very well said. Back to the beginning to do what they were supposed to do in
> the first place is the simplest solution.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karl Auerbach" <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 8:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [ga] Roberto Gaetano on ALAC Reform
>
> >
> > I don't see why we need to build a third, or fourth, mechanism for the
> > community of internet users to have their deserved and necessary role.
> >
> > We had such a mechanism, or at least a nascent form of it, in year 2000
> > when we had nearly 200,000 people sign up to vote for regional
> > director's seats.
> >
> > ICANN's "reform" destroyed that and replaced it with the ALAC, a body
> > who's power and role is perhaps best expressed simply by articulating
> > its name - "A Lack" - A lack of concrete linkage between the opinions of
> > individual internet users and the decisions made by ICANN.
> >
> > There is no wonder here in North America why ICANN's ALAC has been
> > ignored: People here comprehend its intentionally crippled structure, a
> > structure intentionally designed to ensure that it remains forever
> > powerless and weak, and that it never represents a threat to the
> > entrenched authority of the IP, registry/registrar, and business
> > components of ICANN.
> >
> > So to my mind ICANN has but one choice: fulfill the promise made during
> > ICANN's formation in which the community of internet users would have a
> > means to vote, as individuals, for a majority of the seats of ICANN's
> > ultimate authority, its Board of Directors.
> >
> > Doing yet another study would merely add pages to an already thick
> > compendium of studies and ICANN's broken promises.
> >
> > I applaud the optimism of you and Vittorio and others who have stuck
> > with the ALAC idea.  But it an optimism that I do not share, and which
> > it seems the majority of internet users in North America also do not
> share.
> >
> > --karl--
> >

Regards,

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