[ga] Re: [ga-icann] Domain group revolts against ICANN

["NameCritic" <watch-dog@inreach.com>]

There goes one shoe.

Chris McElroy aka NameCritic

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From: "Patrick Corliss" <patrick@quad.net.au>
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Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 7:58 PM
Subject: [ga-icann] Domain group revolts against ICANN


> Domain group revolts against ICANN
> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2767690,00.html
>
> By Juliana Gruenwald
> Interactive Week
> June 1, 2001 12:01 PM PT
>
> STOCKHOLM, Sweden--The operators of the Internet domain names designated
for
> countries around the world voted Friday to withdraw from a key
organization
> that helps set policies for the group that manages the Internet's Domain
> Name System.
>
> During the opening day of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
> Numbers' quarterly meeting, a working group of the operators of the
> country-code top level domains (ccTLDs), such as .uk or .fr, voted
> unanimously to pull out of ICANN's Domain Name Supporting Organization
> (DNSO). They also called on ICANN to create a separate supporting
> organization that would provide the ccTLD operators with more say in
ICANN's
> decision making and give them at least one seat on ICANN's board of
> directors.
>
> "We don't believe we got much from the DNSO," said William Black, managing
> director at Nominet UK, which manages the country code, .uk, for the
United
> Kingdom. "We want a more meaningful" role within ICANN.
>
> The ccTLD operators have been in discussions for several months with ICANN
> aimed at developing agreements to better define their relationship with
> ICANN. It was picked in 1998 by the U.S. government to take over
management
> of the Internet's DNS. In that role, ICANN plays a key role in
establishing
> policies that affect so-called generic top-level domains (gTLDs) such as
> .com, .net and .org, those targeted at Internet users all over the world.
>
> While ICANN does not make policy decisions for ccTLD operators, it is
> responsible for providing some technical tasks for them. In exchange,
ICANN
> has called on the ccTLD operators to provide as much as one-third of the
> organization's funding. There are about 250 ccTLD operators around the
> world, though many are not active in the ICANN process.
>
> The ccTLD operators say they have made much progress in their talks with
> ICANN. Still, they have long complained about their role within the DNSO,
> which is primarily focused on policies that affect global domain names. At
> the same time, the DNSO itself has been criticized by some as largely
> ineffective.
>
> ICANN has two other supporting organizations that provide advice on
> technical issues. Each supporting organization gets three seats on ICANN's
> 19-member board.
>
> "The DNSO is broken," said Nigel Roberts, the operator of the Channel
> Islands ccTLD, .gg. "We have tried over the years to work within the
> process. It's clear for a number of reasons it is not going to work."
>
> ICANN board member Rob Blokzijl said he supports the ccTLD operators'
demand
> for their own supporting organization, adding that it is something they
> should have called for a long time ago.
>
> Still, ICANN is not expected to act on the ccTLD operators' demand at its
> board meeting on Monday, said ICANN President M. Stuart Lynn.
>
> While declining to say whether ICANN would agree to their demand, Lynn
> acknowledged that the ccTLD operators "provide a significant proportion of
> funding (for ICANN) and should have their voice effectively heard within
the
> structure" of ICANN.
>
> However, the ccTLD operators' call for seats on the ICANN board could
prove
> controversial if it forces another group to give up some of their seats,
> particularly if they come from the nine seats originally allocated to
> Internet users at large. ICANN is conducting a study about whether general
> Internet users, as opposed to those that represent business or another
> constituency, should have seats on the board.
>
> Consumer groups, academics and others have been critical of any moves to
> eliminate these "at-large" board seats. Internet users from around the
world
> were given an opportunity last fall to elect five of the nine at-large
> members to the ICANN board. But ICANN has yet to say whether four others
> also will be elected. Those four seats are currently held by four of the
> original nine members appointed to the ICANN board when it was created
> nearly more than two years ago.
>
>
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