Re: [ICANN-EU] The real challenge for all of us as candidates

[Christoph <cweber@dialup.nacamar.de>]

Hello,

Jefsey Morfin wrote:

> may I ask you a question: "did you read the ICANN bylaws and the
> white paper, or some abstracts of them?" 

This is a real interesting question. Yes I did. Not all of them, 
though, I have to admit - English legalese is even more boring 
than German one is.

> It would help you evaluating the people we need at the ICANN BoD are 
> "consensus technicians" ie diplomats and peace makers.

I'm not sure about that. I think consensus isn't hard to reach, 
provided you have the right folks in. Maybe we already have too 
much diplomats and peace makers in that organization.

Let's do some speculation: what if ? What if Dyson had thrown 
the whole pack of intellectual property mafia out of the 
process. Put a "leave your lawyer ouside" sign at the door ? 

No sane person understands anyway why a trade association of 
IP lawyers should have a say in the internet naming process. 
Isn't the whole objective of good laws to avoid conflicts and 
cost lawyers work ? And will a lawyers association work towards 
that goal ?

Dyson's under fire anyway - she would just be under fire 
from another side now, where's the differnce ? At least she 
would fight for the right thing.

Admittedly hindsight is cheap, but wouldn't we be better of 
if Dyson had acquired a principled stand from start on instead 
trying to please everyone ? 

I think one of the main goals of a sensible DNS reform should 
be making clear that trademark law can not and should not be 
applied to host names.

> So, today we need to vote for a lawyer, a politic with some
> good understanding of the real needs, able to make our message to be
> passed to less informed current BoD Members and ICANN staff, to
> registrars,  registries, large ISPs, governments, etc....

Yet Another Lawyer Politician is about the last thing we need.

Regards

Christoph Weber-Fahr