Re: [ga] RE: issues that are long closed?

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Karl and all,

  Well said, and I could not agree more.  Thank you.  However
unfortunately, unconscionable is a stalwart of ICANN and reflects
badly on the US, particularly and specifically on DOC/NTIA, which
remains baffling to me.  Maybe someday they will stand up and
recognize what ICANN has done so badly, and damaged so many,
for the benefit of so few, for too long, and for no good reason...  It
saddens and sickens me that my daughters and their generation will
likely inherit some, if not all of this legacy.  Sadder still, they already
know it.  >:(

However I disagree with your considered evaluation of Roberto.

Karl Auerbach wrote:

> Roberto Gaetano wrote:
>
> > Other issues, like for instance the direct election of Directors, is closed,
> > at least for the foreseeable future.
>
> I consider you an articulate, intelligent, progressive, and far seeing member
> of the ICANN community.
>
> But it saddens me when you write that you do not see the resumption of
> elections for directors.
>
> It is feasible.  The election of year 2000 worked.  It's problems were few and
> would have been readily corrected in another round.  The urban legands about
> impossibility are just that - urban legends.  And indeed, the 2000 elections
> worked despite the active attempts to undermine them by people associated with
> ICANN and who I believe are still still associated with and compensated by ICANN.
>
> The ALAC, despite ICANN cheer leading, ICANN funding, and years of ICANN life
> support has not achieved even a minuscule portion of the internet user buy-in
> that was obtained in a few short months by the year 2000 election.
>
> The only thing standing in the way of resurrection of elections is ICANN's board.
>
> For a public-benefit body, which ICANN is legally defined to be, to eject the
> public so completely as it has done is unconscionable.
>
>                 --karl--

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