Re: [atlarge-discuss] How policy really gets made...

["J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin" <jefsey@club-internet.fr>]

This is important and very true.
How bad that our most able, expeimented and active man on the spot refuses 
to be a Member.
Danny would you at least share into an us@large PAC or WG?
jfc


n 03:37 25/05/03, DannyYounger@cs.com said:

> Comments from newly elected ICANN director Mike Palage:
>
> "The participants in this meeting included: the CDT and EPIC two of the
> prominent players in connection with privacy rights, Steve Metalitz from the
> IPC, Becky Burr from Wilmer Cutler (she explained historical 99 contract
> negotiations and the current GNR Whois proposal); registrars in attendance
> were NSI, BulkRegister and MarkMoniter (GoDaddy was invited but unable to
> attend), the USPTO, the FTC, and myself.
>
> Regarding meetings in DC they happen on a regular basis and I am not even
> invited to some of them :-) By way of example a couple of weeks ago, Paul
> Twomey was in DC. During the day he had a "meeting" with Brian Cute, Elana
> Briotman, and Donna McGehee. Later in the evening there was a welcome
> "reception" for Paul Twomey at AT&T offices in which if I remember correctly
> Elliot Noss (TUCOWS) was one of the co-sponsors of that event. At that
> "reception" Paul Stahura and Ross Rader were some of the additional
> registrars that were in attendance.
>
> This highlights a culture in which some big registrars tend to gravity
> toward Washington in an attempt to curry favor among some of the decision
> makers. Surprise, surprise. This does not even taken into account the
> regular number of times that some of these larger registrars call Robin
> Layton and other DoC/NTIA members on the phone".
> http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/registrars/Arc02/msg01282.html
>
> ----------
>
> If icannatlarge ever hopes to become an effective organization, it will need
> to begin to learn to "interact" in order to properly advocate for the
> At-Large.  The other day, I spent close to half an hour on the phone with 
> NTIA's Robin
> Layton, the US GAC representative.  I encourage others in this group to
> similarly reach out and to communicate with those decisionmakers and 
> lobbyists
> whose views continue to shape the future of At-Large involvement.
>
> Progress begins by showing up at meetings and communicating with others...
> how many of the current candidates will commit to showing up in 
> Montreal?  How
> many have ever attended a prior ICANN session?
>
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