Re: [ga] Appeal to the ALAC

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

I can appreciate your appeal Danny, but it is a waste of time and
effort,
much as your appeals to Vint Cerf have been.  These sort of people
have long ago made-up their mind as to where "They" wish the internet
to go.

Danny Younger wrote:

> Dear Vittorio,
>
> Please forward this correspondence to the At-Large
> Advisory Committee.
>
> Dear At-Large Advisory Committee members,
>
> Vittorio's recent post to CircleID (cited below)
> reflects the frustration of the At-Large.  We are a
> community convinced that the ICANN Board has not been
> listening to our input.
>
> As end-users of the DNS, policy decisions enacted by
> the Board impact us directly and as such we, ICANN's
> largest stakeholder group, warrant seats at the table
> where such decisions are being made -- this is the
> only manner by which we can ensure that our views will
> be taken into account.
>
> In order to secure representation on the Board we
> members of the At-Large have no choice but to
> establish a Supporting Organization to elect our own
> Board representatives.
>
> It is long past time to pursue this course of action.
> Every other substantial group within ICANN has such
> representation.  Unless you believe that it is
> sufficient for our community to continue being treated
> as a pariah, then I ask you to take action (as did the
> ccTLD community) by laying the groundwork to establish
> our own Supporting Organization.
>
> Consider your own frustration.  Ask yourselves, has an
> advisory body construct well-served the needs of the
> At-Large, or would we better be served by a different
> institutional framework?  The ccTLDs recognized that
> their needs weren't being suitably met by ICANN and
> reorganized accordingly.  We as an impacted community
> must do the same.
>
> I ask you to begin by establishing a mailing list
> wherein these and other at-large considerations may be
> thoroughly discussed/debated by the entirety of our
> community.
>
> I ask you to enter into a discussion with your peers
> in the At-Large.
>
> Best regards,
> Danny Younger
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> By Vittorio Bertola | Jan 18, 2006, 02:41 am PST |
>
> (First of all, the nasty one) Did you ever read the
> submissions by the At-Large Advisory Committee on this
> matter? Could we please find a way to discuss the
> matter with you and the Board, other than using the
> press?
>
> Do you really think that it is ICANN?s role to decide
> which new TLDs are useful? Shouldn?t ICANN just verify
> whether applications meet some basic technical and
> substantial requirements, have an ongoing
> accreditation process, and let the DNS evolve?
>
> Don?t you think that high application fees (or, even
> worse, auctions), long and complex accreditation
> processes, and significant lobbying needs, unduly
> favour commercial uses of the DNS over non-commercial
> ones, and established ICT companies from the developed
> world over everyone else?
>
> As an example, a group of volunteers (see
> http://www.eu.org/) has been successfully operating
> and giving away for free domain names for 10 years
> now; but they would never be able to meet all the
> financial and operational burdens that ICANN creates
> to get a gTLD. Isn?t this the proof that these burdens
> are unnecessary? Why can?t there be a way to establish
> non-profit gTLDs compatible with the classical
> volunteer-based and bottom-up approach of all Internet
> activities?
>
> Thanks,
>
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Regards,

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