RE: [atlarge-discuss] Who are you really?

[Joanna Lane <jo-uk@rcn.com>]

Danny,

We have already set up a Working Group to deal with all the issues you
list - WG-ICANN, coordinator Hans Klein, our AltChair, and I believe it's
open (or about to open) for members to sign up.

Regarding housekeeping, I think we'd look a bit silly running to the
publishing houses with a policy document with a blank cover because we have
been so busy solving ICANN's problems, we actually forget who we are.

It's all a question of balance, don't you think?

Regards,
Joanna







> -----Original Message-----
> From: DannyYounger@cs.com [mailto:DannyYounger@cs.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 7:20 PM
> To: atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de
> Subject: [atlarge-discuss] Who are you really?
>
>
> I fail to understand why an organization that purports to
> represent users is
> not setting up working groups to deal with user issues:
>
> 1.  Transfers
> 2.  Deletes
> 3.  Privacy
> 4.  Internationalized Domain Names
> 5.  Warehousing/Hoarding
> 6.  Self-dealing by registrars
> 7.  Bulk WHOIS Sales
> 8.  Artificial scarcity of TLDs in the namespace
> 9.  UDRP and other Dispute Resolution mechanisms
>
> If you're not going to deal with these issues in a timely
> fashion, then in my
> view you will be even more worthless than the current Names
> Council... and
> why should ICANN want to deal with you if you have nothing of
> substance to
> contribute?
>
> Working groups to attend to housekeeping issues are fine, but let's not
> forget that the real user issues still need to be solved -- that means
> issue-based working groups (unless you want the Business
> Constituency and the
> Intellectual Property Folks to solve these problems for you while
> you dally
> at setting up shop).  Sadly, I don't sense any commitment of the
> part of most
> on this list to actually deal with user issues.  With rare
> exceptions most of
> you don't post to the GA list, nor seek appointment onto established Task
> Forces, nor otherwise display any interest in anything other than
> governance
> issues.  Even those of you that are members of other
> constituencies rarely if
> ever discuss actual user issues.  So, is this really a user
> organization, or
> is it just a paltry clone of the Non-Commercial Constituency
> masquerading as
> a body of users?
>
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