RE: [atlarge-discuss] Act now -- Your privacy is at risk

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

I do want to say for the record that Danny's detailed chronicling of
ICANN's games is invaluable, and appreciated.

J

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Henderson [mailto:richardhenderson@ntlworld.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 9:43 AM
> To: Judith Oppenheimer; DannyYounger@cs.com;
> atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de
> Subject: Re: [atlarge-discuss] Act now -- Your privacy is at risk
>
>
> I have to admit, after the ICANN Board's recent
> proposals/decisions on WLS,
> which ignored the prevailing views of its constituencies (if
> you set aside
> the gTLDs)... it makes you wonder what the participation is for.
>
> The ALAC initiative is another example, when set in the
> context of WLS. If
> the ICANN Board just reverses the judgement and advice of
> DNSO and others
> and "does what it likes" in a "top-down" autocratic manner,
> then what on
> earth will be the point of an ALAC which has even less influence?
>
> All we achieve is to legitimise their "top-down" decisions
> because they can
> then point to us and say: Look! There's a process for
> participants. etc etc.
> A process which they then ignore at will.
>
> I have felt all along that since the @large is despised by
> the ICANN Board
> as a threat to their "absolute power", and since they have no
> intention of
> surrendering power to the @large, our only remaining policy
> is to "go round"
> ICANN and "bypass" their structures, by building an
> organisation which is so
> substantial and numerically convincing, that we can find
> supporters outside
> ICANN to pressurise the Board into ceding us power.
>
> To me, it's the only realistic way.
>
> We set our own agenda. We build our own community. We demonstrate how
> representative it can be. We uphold transparent processes of
> integrity.
>
> What we cannot afford to do, is to "legitimise" the typical
> autocracy we've
> witnessed here with the WLS decision, where it doesn't matter who
> participates or what they are saying, the ICANN politburo
> will still do
> whatever they want on behalf of a limited commercial group
> whose interests
> it seeks to uphold at all costs.
>
> The WLS fiasco illustrates why ALAC is likely to be futile,
> powerless, and
> counter-productive.
>
> Richard Henderson
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Judith Oppenheimer <joppenheimer@icbtollfree.com>
> To: <DannyYounger@cs.com>; <atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de>
> Cc: Joanna Lane (E-mail) <jo-uk@rcn.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 1:28 PM
> Subject: RE: [atlarge-discuss] Act now -- Your privacy is at risk
>
>
> > Danny,
> >
> > Its exhausting trying to following your position.
> >
> > On August 23rd you wrote:
> >
> > "Resolved [02.101] that the President and General Counsel
> are authorized
> to
> > advise the community on behalf of ICANN that we don't give
> a damn about
> > community consensus, and that our record on this matter is clear."
> >
> > see http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc10/msg03612.html .
> >
> > Now you say "send in your comments", as though it would
> make the slightest
> > bit of difference.
> >
> > Some of us have come to the conclusion that submitting
> comments is not
> only
> > a waste of time, but is detrimental in that it facilitates
> ICANN's claims
> > that it considered all points of view and therefore legitimately
> represents
> > community consensus.
> >
> > J
> >
> >
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> > Judith Oppenheimer
> > http://JudithOppenheimer.com
>
>
>


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