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Re: [atlarge-discuss] On the ALAC's Request for Comments

At 03:14 22/04/03, Micheal Sherrill wrote:

Please add mine, as well.
I am not sure some undiplomatic wording will not prevent some press to use that letter. But I certainly share with most of what you say. Please add my name.
jfc



Regards,

Micheal Sherrill

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From: Sotiris Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 20:53:56 -0700

You can add my name to the bottom of this, Danny.

Sotiris Sotiropoulos

DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:

> This moronic plan surely must have been conceived by the feeble-minded idiots
> and stooges that participated as members of the At-Large Assistance Group --
> it has all the hallmarks of a document hand-written by ICANN staff and
> rubber-stamped by the ICANN Board's hand-picked puppets (who apparently are
> too ignorant or too naive to understand that they are only being used as a
> conveniently pliable tool to promote the fiction that ICANN is in compliance
> with task number nine under the Memorandum of Understanding with the U.S.
> Department of Commerce).
>
> Having witnessed the complete and total elimination of all public
> representation on the ICANN Board these fools on the At-Large Advisory
> Committee now expect the Internet community to rally around a top-down effort
> designed to asininely further complicate communication between individual
> users and members of the ICANN Board.
>
> In the past, any individual user could write a letter to ICANN and feel
> confident that they would be ignored (as it has become rather apparent that
> ICANN only bothers to pay attention to those special-interest groups it deems
> to be "stakeholders" in its Cartel). Now one has to do all of the following
> in order to achieve the same outcome:
>
> 1. First one must find a noncommercial entity to join.
> 2. Next, one needs to convince the members of this non-profit group that
> they must post on their website information that pertains to ICANN
> activities/issues, and further convince them to offer Internet-based
> discussion mechanisms so that such activities/issues may be evaluated.
> 3. Then it next becomes necessary to convince this noncommercial group that
> they must provide information on the group's general funding sources to the
> ALAC (so that this Committee of pseudo-accountants/analysts can ostensibly
> come to a determination as to whether the non-profit has commitments or
> obligations that would conflict with its ability to involve and represent
> individual constituents' interests).
> 4. At this point, one must now confirm that somewhere on the non-profit
> group's website is an articulation of its non-commercial goals and structure,
> a description of constituent group(s), its working mechanisms, leadership,
> and contact(s) -- unlike the ALAC which has no posted working mechanisms, an
> incomplete structure, no contact data on its discussion list (the e-mail
> addresses of all the "representatives" are replaced with XXXXX), no working
> public forum and no publicly archived public comments.
> 5. Then, the non-profit must be convinced to submit in electronic form a
> completed application and to provide the ALAC any further requested
> documentation (which may include references, documents to verify general
> funding sources, documents on the organization's leadership and operations,
> and documents that demonstrate the identity of all their individual
> constituents -- has anyone on this Committee ever heard of the concept of
> privacy?). The non-profit must also be convinced that it must necessarily
> subject itself to the prospect of further possible interviews regarding the
> organization's contact(s) and must potentially provide other as yet
> unspecified information about the organization.
> 6. If the ALAC then decides to designate this organization as an eligible
> "structure", the user that wishes to communicate with the ICANN Board must
> next find at least three other such structures (that must be located in at
> least two countries) and must persuade these structures to form a regional
> organization.
> 7. In order to form this regional body, the user must then convince these
> other organizations to spend months and months developing a set of bylaws
> that all organizations can agree upon, and then the user must further
> convince each non-profit organization to share in the financial burden of
> establishing this new umbrella organization -- that means dedicating
> financial resources for the purpose of incorporation, and setting aside funds
> to provide for an organizational website, Secretariat services, and such.
> 8. The user must also convince each such non-profit organization that it's
> limited funds should be applied to this glorious experiment instead of
> remitting such limited funds as the membership fee for direct participation
> in ICANN's Non-Commercial constituency (which at least gets to participate in
> the election of an ICANN director).
> 9. If the regional organization is finally created, then the user must await
> the formulation of a formal Memorandum of Understanding with ICANN which
> consecrates this effort... (for some reason, this Committee of the
> Mentally-Challenged seems to think that the At-Large is so gullible that it
> will willingly enter into a contract with ICANN in the full knowledge that
> ICANN has broken all of its prior promises, ignored the consensus conclusions
> of its own Blue Ribbon Panel (the ALSC) and has gleefully wiped out all user
> representation on its Board).
> 10. Finally, if this last stage is achieved, the user can then send his
> comments to the two members of the ALAC that his regional organization has
> elected. Those two members will then transmit his message to the full
> committee that will next proceed to filter, mangle, distort, and re-write his
> comments (after sincerely thanking him for his input). The ALAC will then
> transmit a non-binding "recommendation" to the Board that in turn will thank
> the committee for its efforts before proceeding to ignore the comments
> received.
>
> As a user, I don't need this degree of structural bullshit just to
> communicate my sentiments directly to ICANN. The problem is not the lack of
> a structured vehicle to serve as a communications conduit... the problem has
> always been that the Board has been comprised of members that can't be
> bothered to listen to the voice of the public that they purportedly serve.
>
> This ALAC plan sucks. Unfortunately, the spineless worms on the Committee
> will never advocate for substantive change. Instead, they will meekly accept
> the bylaws as written and will continue to pretend to "represent" the
> At-Large. All hail the Company Union.
>
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