[ICANN-EU] Comments about your view of ICANN squatters

["Griffini Giorgio" <grunz@tin.it>]

You wrote:
> 
> > I would be interested in knowing your evalutation of the ICANN annoucement 
> > of 4 interim Members of the initial BoD  to stay 4 years instead of a few 
> > months and to represent you.
> 
> Personally I feel that it is a breach of faith.
> 
> Not that this is anything surprising or new - ICANN has from the outset
> repeatedly broken its bond of trust with the Internet community.  Just
> look at how ICANN has from its very first meeting flagrantly tossed aside
> its obligations to "operate to the maximum extent feasible in an open and
> transparent manner".  Just look at how ICANN deferred even the creation of
> an at large membership.  And why did ICANN fill only a portion of the
> at-large seats?
> 
> By permitting this boardsquatting ICANN has once again slapped the
> Internet community in the face.
> 
> 		--karl--
> 

Karl, 
be aware that ICANN is under heavvy pressure on stating its role and many 
attempts to endanger it have been put in place also recently (with NSI 
multilingual domain names issue the most noticeable one).
Also, there is nothing new in such decisions because they were written 
black-on-white even before the @large adventure was started. 
I'm not sure that is a good thing to exercise pressure on ICANN from our side 
(the @large membership) this way with the relevant risk to break the thing 
we are likely interested in partecipating in. 
I think a better approach would be to keep watching on what will develop and 
claim for  'bad faith'  when it actually makes some real damage rather than 
blame for it in advance.
If we allow/contribute for a ICANN breakdown, large companies interests will 
take control of the DNS and I don't think this is what the membership@large 
would like to happen.
We should go with a little care but be ready to fight when this is actually 
needed and/or appropriate. After all even David was successful with Goliath 
but he had to wait for the right moment for hitting him with that famous little 
stone...

Best regards
Giorgio Griffini