Re: [atlarge-discuss] To RALO or not to RALO (was: Some Simple Facts...)

["Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@ntlworld.com>]

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From: J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin <jefsey@club-internet.fr>
To: atlarge Discuss List <atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de>

> To keep the comparison with a condo, ICANN can claim to be the Gate Keeper
> and the NTIA the Manager slected by the co-owners. The Manager has no
right
> to decide who are the co-owners he wants to relate with. And certainly the
> Gate Keepr no capacity to decide who the are de co-owners.
> jfc

ICANN does indeed want to be the Gate Keeper, Jefsey... and the concept of
Gate Keeper for the At Large is grotesque... the At Large is independent of
ICANN or it is not "at large" at all.

ICANN has no business developing structures and RALOs for the worldwide
community of internet users. That then brings the structures themselves
UNDER the Icann umbrella, and as you say, ICANN becomes the Gate Keeper...
determines who is let in and who is not... who should sit on this committee
and who should not... and in the end the Gate Keeper is just trying to
contain and control a "pretence" of a worldwide "at large".

We, the people, must be our own Gatekeepers.

We, the people, must develop our own structures and umbrellas.

We, the people of the world, must lay claim to the world's internet, and
demand a decisive role in its governance and development - because it is our
resource, NOT the resource of a Californian quango, or its backers.

Yes, if ICANN can control the "Gate" and act as Gatekeeper, then that would
suit its purposes well.. the organisation which decided to EXPEL
democratically elected representatives from its Boardroom...

The Internet Users of the World are NOT a subsidiary of ICANN. They are an
entity in their own right, vastly greater than ICANN...

I repeat : the RALOs are a complete (and designed) trap.

Richard Henderson



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