Re: [atlarge-discuss] analysis

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

Danny and all stakeholders or other interested parties and members,

  Danny, with all due respect I think you are being a bit premature
as well as melodramatic.

  The ALAC is a ruse, and has been from the beginning.  Some of the
more astute of us here recognized that from the start.  The ICANN staff
and BoD will never willingly agree to have BoD members elected by
stakeholders/users in any At-Large, regardless of it's form.  Yet they
did promise to do so.  Hence, the approach from ICANNATLARG's
position presently can still take several forms.  But time is wasting...

DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:

> It's a simple fact of life that groups that have no power are quickly
> subsumed by groups that are capable of wielding power.  The powerless
> At-Large is effectively dead, now subsumed by governments that can
> legitimately make the claim that they collectively represent the interests of
> the broader user community.
>
> While participants on this list go through the futile motions of
> self-organization (an exercise designed by ICANN to keep people busy and
> quiet), well-established power blocs like the European Commission negotiate
> directly with the U.S. Department of Commerce to strengthen the role of
> governments in the namespace.
>
> We are witnessing a transition that will ultimately lead to an international
> treaty organization.  In the immediate future, this means denying a role to
> the At-Large and expanding the role of governments.  Over the course of time,
> we will next begin to see a diminished role for the currently established
> "stakeholders" (to the same degree that governments are now collectively
> acting to minimize the role of the ITU, an organization similarly structured
> with a commercial component).
>
> Finally, a treaty organization will emerge to replace the private entity
> model.
>
> The At-Large is in a terminal coma.  The ALAC is nothing more than an open
> casket awaiting the final moment of burial.  Get over this lost cause, and
> get on with your lives.  Find another path to influence the decision-makers.
> In my view, the path you are on now leads nowhere.
>
> Best wishes to all.
>
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