Re: [ga] Consumer/Registrant Protection Consitituency

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

James and all assembly members,

  Indeed!  As you Jamie, Kent Crispin has long been a provocateur
for various organizations (PAB, POC, IAHC, gTLD-MoU and now
ICANN)  as such it is not surprising to see him yet again spin
another web of dis or misinformation...

None the less thank you for pointing out these obvious and detrimental
ramblings from the "Crispy one"!

  James Love wrote:

> Kent, your comment was pretty unfair, IMO.  The problem is the other way
> around. ICANN itself has set out an agenda which is much more than
> technical.  Why do we have a handful of TLDs?  Technical problems?   Why
> do we have a UDRP?  Technical issues?   Why do we have anti-privacy
> policies?  Technical issues?  When you make policy decisions, then
> people care who has the power, and how they are selected.
>
>    Jamie
>
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Kent Crispin wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 08:43:45PM -0700, William S. Lovell wrote:
> > > Which puts you in the position of ratifying ICANN's claim to be
> > > a policy making rather than a technical coordinating body, does
> > > it not?
> >
> > It is a sad irony that those who most vociferously complain about ICANN
> > exceeding its mandate as a technical coordinating body are precisely the
> > ones who exert the most pressure for it to become a global internet
> > governance organization, with large scale global elections and an
> > elaborate representational structure that some have compared to the UN.
> > It is a great pity that those individuals, some of whom are otherwise
> > quite intelligent, are simply oblivious to the intrinsic contradiction
> > in their position, and to the inevitable consequences of that
> > contradiction...
> >
> >
>
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