Re: [ga] "the fact that the Board does not pay attention"

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Danny and all,

  I strongly believe there are two big problems ICANN is facing
which I am fairly sure these new "RALO's" with these "new
people" which Vini seems so enamored with is many more
failing registrars, and some additional failing registries in which
as Danny rightly points out there is no archived registrant
data done, leading to small business failures galore, or  by
the hundreds of thousands.

  Building an archive for these registrars registry data is very
easy to do and only a little bit more difficult to secure.  I have
done literally hundreds of them for different type and more
verbose data bases.

The second is IP address registry data.  What is known and rarely
discussed on this forum, is that very few RIR's and nearly
no LIR's have any IP registry data archived.  This is entirely
irresponsible and can be even more devastating as network
connectivity on a large scale can be severely interrupted for
a significant period of time.  ICANN and the IANA haven't
addressed this one in any tangible way at all.  However I am
sure if .GOV connectivity via IP, were corrupted or interrupted,
ICANN's tit would be in a very tight ringer.  And it's going to
happen, and sooner rather than later.

  Instead, ICANN and the GNSO is more interested in
discussing "RALO's" rather than doing it's primary functions.


Danny Younger wrote:

> Roberto,
>
> Over the years the Board has been often warned about
> matters such as the lack of registrant data escrow
> services, about registrar circumvention of consensus
> policies, about the lack of competitive choice in the
> RGP cycle, about the folly of creating a defacto
> registry/registrar guild, about deficient
> accreditation practices that led to the creation of
> hundreds of phantom registrars, etc. etc.
>
> The GA has served as an early warning system exposing
> the the flaws in current ICANN policies, but
> apparently it takes a major disaster such as the
> Registerfly debacle for the Board to realize that the
> GA has been on target while the Board and Staff have
> been asleep at the wheel.
>
> If the Board has chosen not to pay attention to those
> that endeavor to help safeguard the future of the DNS,
> then they are exercising their fiduciary
> responsibilities in a truly delinquent manner.
>
> We can't gloss over issues that you regard as "long
> closed" because we see a Board that has been derelict
> in its duty to the community.  Eliminating all
> at-large directors pushed the pendulum too far in the
> wrong direction.  The White Paper warned of the
> potential for capture by a self-interested faction,
> and indeed ICANN has been captured by those with
> little regard for the public interest element.
>
> Now the public interest considerations are beginning
> to bite ICANN in the butt as inattention to this
> factor has commanded the world's attention.
>
> Issues aren't closed just because the Board says they
> are closed.
>
> The Board has made a number of bad decisions ranging
> from its manhandling of the at-large community to
> shafting the registrant community with unwarranted
> price increases.
>
> Don't expect us to forget these insults just because
> the Board has moved on to other issues.
>
> Wrongs must be corrected.
>
> --- Roberto Gaetano <roberto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Michael Froomkin wrote:
> > >
> > > As for the RALOs they're so far from the Board's
> > ear that one
> > > wonders whether anyone takes them seriously or if
> > they're
> > > just there to let ICANN insiders bamboozle the
> > press.  There
> > > is no constitutency now represented in ICANN that
> > would ever
> > > settle for such poor representation.  The day
> > that, say,
> > > businesses, who also number in the millions, are
> > asked to
> > > organzie along the same lines is the day that I'll
> > start to
> > > take RALO's seriously.
> >
> > I would like to offer a different perspective.
> > Businesses belong to the Business Constituency of
> > the GNSO. That
> > constituency is one of the 6 in the Council. In the
> > Name Council you have
> > also the NomCom representatives, and two
> > constituencies (Registries and
> > Registrars) have weighted voting.
> > So, they count in the Council for slightly more than
> > 10% of the voting.
> > The current GNSO-elected Board Directors come from
> > the IPC and Registrars,
> > and the former came from NCUC. Previous Directors
> > also came, if I am not
> > mistaken, from IPC or Registrars. So the Business
> > Constituency as such has
> > zero power on the Board.
> > The ALAC, on the contrary, has a non-voting Liaison.
> > Although the Liaison
> > does not have a vote, I can assure you, for having
> > been ALAC Liaison for 3+
> > years, that his/her voice is heard and taken into
> > account. In simple words,
> > the Liaison does not have the power of voting, but
> > does have the power of
> > directly influencing, during Board meetings. Of
> > course, if the Liaison is
> > only complaining and bitching, he/she will no longer
> > be listened to, while
> > if he/she is available to debate in a civilized way,
> > there is wide room for
> > being able to have ALAC's points of view taken into
> > account in shaping the
> > final decision.
> >
> > On the same line of reasonment, maybe we could
> > wonder whether there is a
> > correlation between the fact that most of what goes
> > on now in the GA is
> > complaining or resuscitating issues that are long
> > closed and the fact that
> > the Board does not pay attention. Or whether there
> > is a correlation between
> > the fact that whenever somebody new does not conform
> > to the groupthink
> > he/she gets attacked and the fact that very few
> > newcomers resist in the GA
> > for long.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Roberto
> >
> >
>
>
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