[ga] Re: Fw: [atlarge-discuss] ALOC Draft 3.0

["Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@ntlworld.com>]

James Love wrote:
> > Do you have authority to just decide what
> > goes in the report by yourself?

and that question is important, because if Denise Michel has final say on
what does or does not go into a report, then she is basically speaking for
ICANN (her only authority) - whereas if the majority view of the AtLarge
organisations determined what went into the report, then they would at least
be speaking for the AtLarge community

what do you want?

"top-down" : ICANN decides what goes in reports; ICANN decides how AtLarge
should organise; ICANN decides and the AtLarge community has no power

"bottom up" : groups representing the AtLarge community DECIDE FOR
THEMSELVES how they want their views represented and reported; how they want
to organise

Denise Michel / ICANN Board's initiative is part of a process to
disenfranchise the AtLarge vote, remove elected representation from the
Board, and foist an unwanted "sham" on the AtLarge community.

As far as I can see, Denise has no credibility, because her initiative is
trying to drive the AtLarge community in a direction that everyone knows it
does not wish to go - that is, to remove the user-community from the Board
room.

Poor Denise! It's not her fault! It's just sad!

She's trying to create an alternative voice for the AtLarge, one which says
the opposite of what it actually says.

I think it's unlikely this "ventriloquist" will find many dummies to play
with.

She hasn't really got a job at all : because she has been mandated to
co-ordinate an AtLarge initiative that doesn't exist - it's an ICANN Board
initiative, and the various AtLarge groups are just, basically, in the way.

The AtLarge community did not want this initiative.

The AtLarge community does not support this initiative.

It's pathetic!

Richard Henderson

Furthermore.....

We're talking about an ICANN leadership which is unaccountable, opaque and
unopen, unresponsive, and willing to accommodate corruption when friends and
contacts benefit.

We're talking about an ICANN which has abandoned the voice of those who were
democratically elected by the At Large, and has successively crushed
dissenting voices and striven to exclude them from the Board

We're talking about an ICANN which has used Anderson for accounts and also
excludes the AtLarge director from full access to its accounts

We're talking about an ICANN which accredits registrars long after WIPO has
proved their fraud and yet ICANN do nothing

We're talking about an ICANN whose Registry Agreements were so pathetically
flimsy that they resulted in the .info and .biz fiascos (which disadvantaged
and defrauded ordinary customers)

We're talking about an ICANN which is unresponsive and evasive (it's now
been over 80 days since I asked Dan Halloran 14 serious questions, and he
hasn't even responded - what possible justification for this evasion?)

We're talking about an ICANN dependent on funds from registrars, and
prepared to allow registrars to rip off and abuse the very processes ICANN
agreed to (see for example Signature Domains in the .biz2B)

We're talking about an ICANN which is funded primarily by a tax on ordinary
internet users, through a domain name levy, proposes to increase that levy,
yet affords no accountability to ordinary people

We're talking about an ICANN which has lost almost all credibility, which
has vastly overreached its original mandate, and which administers this
world resource remotely, arrogantly, and unaccountably.

The AtLarge movement speaks for millions and millions of ordinary people who
are the true owners of the Internet. It simply asks for openness, dialogue,
responsiveness, accountability. It also expects significant representation
on the ICANN Board. Because, put simply, (a) the present ICANN leadership
(which Denise Michel represents) is autocratic and wholly unacceptable, and
(b) the millions of users all over the world deserve a much greater say in
the way "their" internet is administered and developed : they should not
lose their voice and votes on the ICANN Board.

The ICANN initiative (which Denise Michel 'fronts') to turn the At Large
community in the opposite direction to the one it has expressly stated it
wants, is as bankrupt and "top down" as the corrupt leadership who thought
it up. It is part of an "old" world way of doing business, and the result is
the sad maladministration of a "new" world resource.

ONE FINAL QUESTION to DENISE MICHEL:

If the AtLarge organisations you have co-opted into your initiative actually
decide they do not want YOU to co-ordinate their views, they want to do it
themselves, present their own demands to the Board, organise and speak for
the At Large community WITHOUT YOUR INTERFERENCE, are you willing to step
down and allow a new co-ordinator to be put in your place, chosen by the
AtLarge groups themselves, rather than by the ICANN Board?

Are you, in short, prepared to step aside - if the At Large movement
expresses the opinion that it doesn't want you as their interface?

I hope you'll reply, Denise, and not do a "Dan Halloran" on me.

Richard Henderson


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