Re: Fw: [ALSC-Forum] Options A,B,C

[Jeff Williams]

Malcolm and all stakeholders or interested parties,

Malcolm Dean wrote:

> All these options and visions simply demonstrate that ICANN has not been
> derived from first principles, and will therefore necessarily end up being
> the beast of politics.

  ICANN or at least the ICANN BoD members and their staff are beasts
of political spin miestering.  A well, and even overly demonstrated and
well documented fact.

> Not surprising, since it was invented by political
> beasts, but disappointing, since this level of Machiavellianism has little
> to do with Postel's vision of the Internet.

  Agreed completely!  And he must be spinning in his grave.  (No pun intended)

>
>
> What do you think you're doing? Inventing a new form of government like Ben
> Franklin? Some voices here are just having too much fun playing Comparative
> Political Systems 101.

  How utterly true!

>
>
> Start at the beginning, folks. What naming system would make all this
> completely unnecessary? How will future distributed database management
> technology solve these problems without a League of Nations? What's the
> difference between the organizational structures which created the immense
> success of the Internet and those which created the morass you are
> attempting to deal with here?

  All good questions.  All answered by a huge number of stakeholders on
a number of occasions.  All of the stakeholders responses rejected for
various reasons by the ICANN BoD or Interim BoD (Previous).

>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karl Auerbach" <karl@cavebear.com>
> To: <forum@atlargestudy.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 7:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [ALSC-Forum] Options A,B,C
>
> >
> >
> > I certainly hope that people do not treat these so-called "options" as
> > hard channels into which thinking must flow.
> >
> > I find these "options" to be more akin to mental straitjackets than useful
> > tools of analysis.  I am particularly sad to see that all the "options"
> > seem to accept without question the continued existance of "Supporting
> > Organizations".
> >
> > To the extent that ICANN has elements that carve out privileged roles for
> > various industry groups - registrars, registries, ISPs, trademark holders,
> > etc - then to that extent democratic values are diminished, perhaps to the
> > point of vanishing.
> >
> > --karl--

Regards,

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