Re: [atlarge-discuss] Comment ALACAG: lack of proper Board oversight

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

Stephen and all stakeholders or other interested parties and members,

  Stephen, you are quite right.  ICANN has abandon it's mandate
in the White Paper and the MoU and is seemingly trying to
relegate stakeholders/users that have a right to have a voice and
a vote on  potential policies and standards that may or will
effect them individually.

Stephen Waters wrote:

> Your attempt to eliminate direct accountability to users on the Board is
> shameful. Instead of drawing the world of the Internet together you are
> contributing to its balkanization. Countries and users will flee the
> ICANN umbrella and standards will disappear.
>
> Internet oversight is not something akin to the FCC or any other
> industry regulatory board. It cannot be run solely by corporate moguls,
> government lawyers, or other paid lackeys.
>
> . It is too global for individual governments to handle, e.g., a
> strictly UN-run Internet organization would have little accountability.
>
> . It's too important to trust to profit-centric corporations. The
> Internet gave non-Big Business press a voice. It should not be taken
> from them again. Furthermore, ICANN-style "intellectual property"
> enforcement eliminates IP competition on the world market. While
> communication and access protocols ought to be standardized, information
> content (which is all IP really is) MUST not be.
>
> Instead of spending my time voting for and lobbying Board members whom I
> agree with, I'm forced to fight ICANN for any voice at all.
>
> This is ridiculous.
>
> Stephen Waters
> Austin, TX
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Regards,
--
Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman for INEGroup - (Over 127k members/stakeholders strong!)
CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng.
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