Re: [ga] Text of Letter to U.S. Commerce Dept. on ICANN Reform

[Dan Steinberg <synthesis@videotron.ca>]

ummmmmmm,
Does this alll have to be about hidden meanings?

is it not possible to agree that ICANN needs to be reined in without
worrying about the motivation of the people saying so?

I mean...I do not represent a registrar or registry or any other R-word.
Yet I most definitely opposed WLS.  by this logic I should be agreeing
with Stuart Lynnn and disagreeing with Verisign.  Dont I have any choice
in the matter?
I think I do.  As a matter of public record...I have agreed with Karl
Auerbach just about every time he spoke about ICANN.
I think ICANN has gone way beyond what their original mandate is. And I
think Stuart Lynn is tryign to take it even further, at the same time
removing any last vestiges of checks/balances and accountability that we
fought so hard to get included in the original contract.


William X Walsh wrote:
> 
> Thursday, August 01, 2002, 4:41:06 PM, Marc Schneiders wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, at 18:06 [=GMT-0400], DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:
> 
> >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31870-2002Aug1.html
> 
> > Marvelous quote, Lynn dismissing the joint protest of Verisign and the
> > European ccTLDs registries against the blueprint:
> 
> > *"A registry by definition has a monopoly, so they all have a common
> > *interest in preserving individual monopolistic practices, so they
> > *don't want to be accountable to anybody."
> 
> > Is by definition the registry of registries (to wit ICANN) exempt
> > from this interest in preserving monopolies? If so, why?
> 
> Oh please, Marc.  I know you are an alt.root advocate, but you are one
> of the most reasonable ones, surely you can recognize that Lynn was
> spot on right in this article, and that the reason for this "protest"
> is clearly because the registries want to attack ICANN for doing the
> right thing with regard to the WLS.
> 
> I know you hate ICANN, and I understand why, but come on, I know you
> can be reasonable, and you have to see that here.
> 
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> William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>
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