[ga] Contempt for the Public?

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

Lauren's comments ring true to me : that has been exactly my own experience.

I've now waited 130 days for acknowledgement of one mail to Dan Halloran,
and over 90 days for acknowledgement of another, even though the questions
and issues I've sought advice on have been legitimate.

My experience suggests to me that ICANN is not so much run in the public
interest as in the interests of the ICANN Board's own agenda.

I find it inexplicable that serious enquiries to a body purportedly working
for the worldwide public can be so demeaningly ignored.

Richard Henderson


> ------ Forwarded Message
> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
> Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 19:47:56 -0700
> To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
> Cc: lauren@pfir.org
> Subject: Re: IP: new architect - ICANN of worms
>
> Dave,
>
> You asked, "When will ICANN stop shooting themselves in the foot?"
>
> The *tenor* of ICANN's responses and statements, rather than their
detailed
> content, has become increasingly revealing of why ICANN is now a
> significant
> part of Internet problems, rather than facilitating solutions to those
> problems.
>
> As you, I, and others have discovered, attempts to submit polite and
> thoughtful suggestions, criticism, or analysis of ICANN issues usually
> result
> either in being totally ignored by ICANN, or in responses from affiliated
> ICANN parties that appear to belittle, marginalize, and/or mischaracterize
> such submissions.
>
> ICANN seems to have developed a "siege" mentality, circling the wagons
> against critics, and firing outward in a scattershot fashion at anyone who
> would dare to question its constantly morphing master plan.
>
> Emotion and self-concern, not logic or public good, appear to increasingly
> represent ICANN's modus operandi.  Once an organization's interactions
with
> the community that it ostensibly serves have deteriorated to this level,
it
> seems problematic in the extreme to assume that a continuing useful role
> for
> that organization is possible, the best intentions of its principals
> notwithstanding.
>
> --Lauren--
> Lauren Weinstein
> lauren@pfir.org or lauren@vortex.com or lauren@privacyforum.org
> Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
> Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility -
http://www.pfir.org
> Co-Founder, Fact Squad - http://www.factsquad.org
> Co-Founder, URIICA - Union for Representative International Internet
>                      Cooperation and Analysis - http://www.uriica.org
> Moderator, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com
> Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
>
>
> ------ End of Forwarded Message


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