Re: [atlarge-discuss] power-sharing phobia

[Sotiris Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>]

Rod!

Welcome back!  I hope some more of the old GA group choose this time to
re-appear and lend their support in our common cause.  Good for you, Rod.

Be Well,

Sotiris Sotiropoulos

"Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M." wrote:

> Hello all, I have re-joined the at-large list, and hope to make a positive
> contribution.
>
> I agree with Danny Younger's points posted today, and think it is now time
> for individual Internet users to declare their independence from ICANN.
> After nearly five years, we now know that the ICANN model is a particularly
> bad governance model, if consensus-building is supposed to be the linchpin
> of legitimacy. Among a number of other problems, ICANN, unmistakably,
> suffers from power-sharing phobia. Since ICANN will not genuinely share
> power with individual Internet users, we should shake off the shackles of
> ICANN-illegitimacy, and independently declare our own governance structure.
> We do not need ICANN; ICANN needs us. My proposal is that Individual
> Internet users self-organize and use the registrar/registry marketplace to
> achieve a voice in Internet governance.
>
> The fact is registrars and registries exist to do business with us. Why not
> take advantage of the competitive marketplace by doing business exclusively
> with those registrars and registries who are responsive to OUR interests? We
> could begin by publicly declaring that those registrars that do not meet our
> expectations of privacy in the WHOIS database will be off-limits to the
> membership of our new structure. Let's begin please.
>
> Rod
>
> Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M.
> rod@cyberspaces.org
>
> http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000801
>
> http://www.circleid.com/articles/2573.asp
>
> http://www.cato.org/dailys/07-06-99.html
>
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