Re: [ga] Public Comments Sought on GNSO Improvements

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Karl and all,

  Indeed, but terribly and yet factually unfortunate.

Karl Auerbach wrote:

> Danny Younger wrote:
> > The Board Governance Committee's GNSO Review Working
> > Group has released a "Draft Working Document on GNSO
> > Improvements" that presents the Working Group's
> > initial thinking on, and raises questions about, how
> > to improve the GNSO
>
> I read it.  It continues the ICANN tradition of creating its own taxonomy of
> interests and putting people into boxes inside boxes.
>
> Let's see ... it suggests several kinds of constituencies for individual people
> - people who act as non-commercial agents, people who act as academics, people
> who act as ... you get the point.
>
> And it blandly says "gee, ICANN has always allowed new constituencies" - the
> truth of that is belied by the treatment of ICANN when it refused to consider
> the IDNO, the constituency for individual domain name owners.
>
> And yet, after all of the report's micro-division of individuals, it does not
> make a similar dissection of commercial interests - there is not a constituency
> into which to put companies with green logos and companies incorporated in
> Alabama, etc.
>
> Why are commercial interests once again given a free ride while individuals are
> chopped up into pieces?  Might I suggest that certain commercial interests like
> the stability they get from a policy of "divide and conquer".
>
> The report fails to recognize the logical conclusion of its strategy of
> micro-dissection: One constituency for each and every person.  In which case
> why the constituency mechanism at all?
>
> Nor does the report consider sunsets on existing constituencies, particularly
> those established by fiat at ICANN's start.
>
> Overall it is a pretty weak report.  It continues the ICANN tradition of
> evading meaningful participation by people and elevating the participation of
> commercial aggregates.
>
> Corporatism.
>
>                 --karl--

Regards,

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