Re: [atlarge-discuss] Trashing Our Founding Principles

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Richard, all assembly members, stakeholders or interested parties,

  Richard, have you forwarded you questions and the lack of answers
on to the DOC/NTIA as of yet?

Richard Henderson wrote:

> I agree with Danny Younger that, whereas originally ordinary internet users
> were to be properly represented in the administration of the DNS, this vast
> worldwide constituency is now to be disenfranchised, and a worldwide
> resource
> is to be put in the hands of a group of people who have already shown
> themselves to be remote and unaccountable. (As an example of this, I have
> now
> been waiting 22 days for an acknowledgement of my questions on
> registry/registrar
> agreements, which I have sent to Dan Halloran, and which I have now been
> asking in various forms for nine months.)
>
> A self-perpetuating regime is exactly what may be achieved, if alternative
> viewpoints are effectively filtered out by a Nominating Committe "stacked"
> in
> favour of the ICANN establishment. Moreover, it was a founding principle of
> ICANN that the millions upon millions of ordinary users would get effective
> representation in the organisation.
>
> The anti-democratic trend in proposed reforms is so pervasive that the
> DNSO/GA replacement is not even to be allowed to choose its own Chair, but
> must accept a Chair "imposed" upon it. This is symptomatic of a "top-down"
> management agenda, designed to control critical elements.
>
> Like Danny Younger, I call on all At Large movements to write to DoC to call
> for
> a return to the founding principles. As British representative for
> IcannatLarge,
> I am in the process of submitting a review of ICANN for the British
> Government
> (in liaison with Joanna Lane). We also need to represent the British At
> Large
> community in correspondence with the American Department of Commerce.
>
> ICANN needs to acknowledge that ordinary internet users in their millions
> have
> a right to "bottom-up" representation, organised through existing and
> developing
> At Large groups, with effective and executive representation on the ICANN
> Board.
> Fundamentally, people have a right to determine their own lives and their
> own futures,
> and in Internet terms, this means a right to determine for themselves the
> way the
> Internet is administered, advanced to others, and developed. The Internet
> belongs to
> millions of people (including our constituency of millions of users here in
> Britain).
> It should not be administered like some petty fiefdom by a small group of
> powerful
> people who are fearful and scornful of public and accountable
> representation.
>
> Thank you Danny, and we'll be writing.
>
> Richard Henderson
> IcannatLarge (UK)
>
> "The Internet belongs to Everyone"   "It's YOUR Internet"
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <DannyYounger@cs.com>
> To: <ga@dnso.org>
> Cc: <atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de>; <discuss@icann-ncc.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 4:56 PM
> Subject: [atlarge-discuss] Trashing Our Founding Principles
>
> > The Palace Coup d'Etat Committee has presented us with a plan that
> > permanently disenfranchises the at-large membership, eliminates all
> > elections, and creates a self-perpetuating regime accountable to no one.
> We
> > will now "evolve" from a democratic representative model to control by an
> > oligarchy of technocrats.
> >
> > This is not evolution, it is the repudiation of our founding principles.
> > This ICANN Board has forfeited our trust.
> >
> > I call on all those that support the at-large initiative to set aside
> > whatever mundane tasks that currently occupy their time, and to
> immediately
> > draft a letter to the Department of Commerce to call for a return to the
> > founding agreements of 1998.  We should settle for nothing less than ICANN
> as
> > a true membership organization with the membership electing their own
> > leadership and Board.
> >
> >
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