RE: [atlarge-discuss] Revised ALAC report submission schedule

["Judith Oppenheimer" <joppenheimer@icbtollfree.com>]

Bret writes,

> Personally, I hope that our newly elected leaders don't take
> this group -- a
> group that is the best bottom-up organizational effort to
> date -- down a
> path that will see it marginalized or completely disregarded.

"... The original concept of a public "at-large" membership that would
elect board members has been replaced with cynical top down staff/board
managed PR exercise that will ironically be used by the board to pack key
committees,including the new "NomCom" with cronies. Esther Dyson, who is
making a career out of protecting ICANN from its critics or government
oversight is currently in charge of deciding who "really" speaks for the
public, and what constitutes "constructive" input. This is a huge mistake,
because Esther is completely out of touch with the public, and would likely
have no support in any at-large strucutre that was democratic.  ...  The
clique of insiders who control ICANN are not willing to give up control,
the unelected board members who promised years ago to leave ICANN are still
there, and the at-large elected members will soon be moved off the board. "
http://www.cptech.org/ecom/icann/cptech06282002.html
CPTech Statement on Bucharest ICANN Meeting, June 28, 2002, Jamie Love

"...[icannatlarge.com] is the group that Esther is now seeking to
marginalize, in part by more or less confusing everyone with a very similar
sounding group, so in the new ICANN speak, "at-large" is used by some to
mean, the public having some elections for its own representation (the
"old" definition), and by Esther and the ICANN board to mean what looks
like a corporate focus group (the new "reformed" definition)."
http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=876&mode=&order=0
"At Large Confusion", ICANNWatch, July 29, 2002, Jamie Love

ICANN has already taken that path.  Which begs the question, why do you
want to walk with ICANN?

J

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bret Fausett [mailto:fausett@lextext.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 11:34 AM
> To: atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de
> Subject: Re: [atlarge-discuss] Revised ALAC report submission schedule
>
>
> I would appreciate hearing from those who would vote not to
> participate in
> the ALAC, what their favored approach would be instead. It's
> pretty easy to
> throw mud at one effort, but something else entirely to come
> up with your
> own plan for influencing ICANN policies.
>
> Personally, I hope that our newly elected leaders don't take
> this group -- a
> group that is the best bottom-up organizational effort to
> date -- down a
> path that will see it marginalized or completely disregarded.
> A thousand
> people are counting on being able to make a difference.
>
>       -- Bret
>
> >> It seems to me that maintaining a presence with the ALAC would be
> >> interpreted as icannatlarge.com (or whatever we shall be
> called) agreeing
> >> to the "consensus" of the participating group as
> summarized in Denise's
> >> report; also that "icannatlarge.com" identifies itself as
> one of ICANN's
> >> many At Large organizations as referred to in its
> blueprint for reform.
> >> ie, toilet paper.
> >
> > Methinks, this is a pretty cogent analysis of the
> situation.  Yet, I do think
> > it's up to the membership (or at least its elected
> representatives) to decide
> > whether icannatlarge.com ought to be associated wih this
> ALAC effort.  If the
> > current Panel wishes, I will request that the ALAC final
> report _not_ contain
> > reference to my name as representative of icannatlarge.com.
>
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