Re: [ga] ICANN Board unanimously approves .biz/.info/.org registry agreements by 13-0

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Danny and all,

  Indeed.  Yet the ICANN Bod with this vote was being
"steward-like" as was Veni, only it was more along
the lines of "Bad-steward-like" or one could say they
were not being the good shepard...

Danny Younger wrote:

> ...and your duty to the Internet community included
> allowing monopolies to raise their prices, and
> allowing the exploitation of data on non-existent
> domain names so that typosquatting activities may
> proliferate.  How very steward-like of you.
>
> --- Veni Markovski <veni@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > At 03:47 PM 11.12.2006 '?.'  +0100, Dominik Filipp
> > wrote:
> > >Veni an all,
> > >
> > >that's exactly the point. If over 90% comments are
> > against the proposal
> > >I don't understand how the proclaiming support for
> > the bottom-up
> > >consensus can hold any further.
> >
> > I have explaned several of my votes, which I
> > consider very important
> > in the last years. The explanations are at
> > http://blog.veni.com , and
> > also in the minutes. As for the percents, one thing
> > I've learnt is
> > that sometimes the percents are not really what
> > matters - you see, in
> > the so called socialist camp (yes, the world before
> > 1989 was divided
> > in "capitalist world", and "socialist camp" - I
> > guess you can see the
> > irony here), there were usually 99.2 % voting in
> > favor of the ruling
> > communist party. In the USA the majority of the
> > people approved the
> > war in Iraq. Etc, etc. Public opinion polls are not
> > always the
> > arguments that one has to listen to, when acting. I
> > would have agreed
> > with you, if I were a politican or a showman, who
> > cares about his
> > image. Since I am neither, and I had duties to the
> > Internet community
> > and ICANN, and not to the GA mailing list, I somehow
> > do not feel the
> > arguments of the majority were very compelling. By
> > the way, obviously
> > the same feelings were in all other directors,
> > because people from
> > all over the world voted the same way.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Veni Markovski
> > http://www.veni.com
> >
> > check also my blog:
> > http://blog.veni.com
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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