[ga] Re: [ncdnhc-discuss] One observation on the so-called "ICANN reform" proposal

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

Chun and all,

  Indeed this revelation although not all that unexpected is skewed
in the most gross manner that a realistic person that has been involved
or participated in this process for some 5+ years could imagine.
Your observations here are well taken in several sectors I am sure...

Chun Eung Hwi wrote:

> One observation on the so-called "ICANN reform" proposal
>
> 1.      His proposal is based on the complete denial of "bottom-up
> process", which has been the central principle of ICANN. It looks very
> ironical for this document to take on the form of proposal for discussion.
> Basically, his proposal lacks the willingness of hearing people's opinion
> in this community.
>
> 2.      His proposal is based on the complete denial of all time and
> energy committed for making most constructive suggestions and discussions
> in ICANN. His proposal is itself a representative example case to make
> ICANN process less efficient because it even completely ignores what ALSC
> had done to now, for which Board allocated a significant amount of
> financial resources and personnels although its output is also being
> challenged. However, rather, Lynn says the very strange argument that
> democratic bottom-up process has made ICANN inefficient.
>
> 3.      One of major reasons that Lynn takes for justifying to suggest the
> creation of new structure is the reality that those important stake
> holders' involvement is decreasing and accordingly the fund contribution
> is decreasing as well. But this resulted from the unilateral way of
> working of ICANN particularly reinforced since the last decision of new
> gTLDs, but not from the complexity and overhead of bottom-up process. As
> he admitted it, a substantial number of stake holders are recognizing
> ICANN and approaching to a status of agreement even though there still
> remain some differences. We could not expect the stable operation of DNS
> when ICANN headquarter charges the process itself as an inefficient and
> unworthy one because they could not make an mutually acceptable agreement
> with other stake holders and could not reach a wishful conclusion in their
> mind.
>
> 4.      In suggesting the creation of new structure by discarding ICANN -
> His proposal is in any aspect not a proposal for ICANN reform. Rather it
> suggests the fundamentally different organizing principles as White Paper
> had done so. - he explains the reason of change for conducting the core
> functions rather than discussing everything and he also says that ICANN
> could not work without much more fund, but the present structure of ICANN
> doesn't secure the possibility. But why so much more fund is needed in
> conducting simply the key functions?  In fact, throughout his accounts, he
> reveals his argument that ICANN should expand its scope of regulation much
> more and so it requires more funds, and to do such more works without any
> interruption, all democratic process should be abolished.
>
> 5.      As a whole, in my eyes, Lynn seems to say that Ira Magaziner's
> Liberal version of ICANN should be replaced with government initiated
> Republican version of ICANN. Moreover, he looks to say that the U.S. had
> already decided to seek only efficiency rather than getting global
> bottom-up consensus since September 11th, therefore whether to follow up
> it or not completely depends on you. No more discussion about it! And
> governments should be lined up with the U.S. leading direction.
> Definitely, in this way, we are witnessing the instability of Internet
> drifting from this direction to another.
>
> Chun Eung Hwi
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