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Re: [ga] Re: Violations of the Bylaws?
Dear Vint,
One of the responsibilities of the Board is to "recognize consensus".
1. 3453 petitioners endorsed an Anti-WLS petition posted at
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?antiwls
2. A review of the comments posted to the Public Forums shows an
overwhelming objection to the proposed WLS
3. Members of the General Assembly were similarly overwhelmingly in
opposition to the WLS
4. Every single constituency with the exception of the gTLDs came out in
opposition to the WLS
5. The DNSO voted to reject Verisign's request to amend its agreement to
enable it to introduce its proposed WLS
6. The DNSO also voted to reject Verisign's request to trial the WLS for 12
months
and yet the Board has resolved to launch the WLS.
In your testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce,
Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet on 8 February 2001 you
stated, "ICANN is a consensus development body, not a regulatory agency. Its
decisions are intended to reflect consensus in the Internet community, not
simply the policy preferences of those who happen to sit on its Board at any
given moment."
As I am sure that you did not willfully lie to the US Government, I can only
assume that the Board's decision on WLS must reflect a consensus in the
Internet community that I have somehow failed to notice. Otherwise one might
conclude that you have chosen to act in defiance of the community will at a
time when the Department of Commerce has been looking for assurances that the
views of all Internet stakeholders are being heard.
Perhaps you would be good enough to demonstrate the presence of such
community consensus so that we don't arrive at the conclusion that your
collective actions represent simply the policy preferences of those who now
sit on the Board... Unless of course, the Board is now of the view that it
has no obligation to honor, respect, or abide by the consensus of the
community.
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