[ga] Re: [GTLD Registries List] Re: Open Letter to Mr Jeff Neuman from The Internet Challenge

["Jim Fleming" <jfleming@anet.com>]

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From: "Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@ntlworld.com>
> 
> Is ICANN satisfied to have constructed a system which appears to offer
> special opportunities (effectively queue-jumping) to a privileged few, while
> excluding members from the public from parts of the process. Is this fair
> and equitable? Is this in line with ICANN's mandate to ensure the fair
> distribution of domain names?
> 

How do you come to the conclusion that ICANN has a mandate to ensure fairness ?

Are you aware of the people who are behind ICANN ?
....some of them make their living organizing groups that exclude...
....they were born into elitism, and do not know anything but that...
....they prefer to see their insiders be the only ones allowed to obtain
Internet resources...and operate in the legacy roots, run by the U.S.
Government....where clueless clerks have been duped into thinking that
the "a root" is some nuclear reactor that they can not understand or
dare touch....it is a farce...

To be clear, there is nothing wrong with people who like to promote
elitism. There will always be come percentage of the population that works
hard to exclude. ICANN is a magnet that attracts such people. ICANN is
now reorganizing to be more exclusive. There are people who apparently
honestly believe that they are of some superior race or intelligence and
need to control the Internet for the good of the rest of the organisms on
the planet. You can not change their basic view that they are superior in
all of their decision-making.

The flip-side is of course that the majority of people on the planet will
not likely desire to sign up for such an elite club. Many people believe that
all humans are equal, and that basic human rights and freedom are important.
Many people work to help free people and make resources available to
all people. They work to create communication systems that allow people
to route around groups like ICANN, that work to exclude.

In many respects, ICANN and the I* society's multi-level-marketing machine
help to define the second group. You have the small group of insiders
and by definition, everyone else is on the outside. It really works rather well.
Some people like to be insiders and others have no choice but to be on the
outside. On the outside, we have more TLDs, more diversity, more freedom,
etc. and an active community of software developers working to expand the
resources for freedom-loving people.

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JF

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