[ga-roots] Re: ICANN Criticizes Alternative Roots

["Patrick Corliss" <patrick@quad.net.au>]

From: Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net>
To: Chris Chiu <CCHIU@aclu.org>
Cc: Ncdnhc-Discuss@Lyris. Isoc. Org (E-mail) <ncdnhc-discuss@lyris.isoc.org>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 09:22:03 -0700
Subject: Re: ICANN Criticizes Alternative Roots


Chris,

Constructive discussion is not aided by misrepresenting the work of others.

At 08:05 AM 5/29/2001, Chris Chiu wrote:
>In a draft document posted May 28, 2001, the Internet Corporation for
>Assigned Names and Numbers

The draft is clearly labeled as an exercise by Stuart Lynn, not "ICANN".


>accused supporters of alternative domain name
>roots (ADNRs) of having "insular motives"

He did not accuse "supporters".  He quite accurately labeled the
alternative roots, themselves.  That is, the people who created
them.  That's not a small difference, Chris.


>and argued that it had a public
>"mandate" based on self-described "community-based processes"

The term has been applied to ICANN long before the paper and by many, many
others.  So, "self-described" is factually false.

It's a shame that the fact that ICANN is so massively more open and global
than any other equivalent process is lost on folks.

d/

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