Re: [ga-roots] response

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Milton and all,

Milton Mueller wrote:

> Page:
> Agree with most of your message but question the paragraph below.
> I don't think funding is really the issue. Joe Sims, Louis Touton, and
> Andrew McLaughlin are nothing if not bright. They are hard working,
> clever lawyers.

  Given your comments below, I am finding it difficult to see how you
can evaluate Sims, Touton and Mclaughlin as all that "Clever"...

>
>
> The problem is with the way ICANN was created. From beginning
> its management has been totally in the grip of a small group with its
> own ideas about how things should be done. This small group
> selected the initial Board all by itself, and also constructed the
> DNSO in a way that was rigged to appease a small core of interest groups.
> So there has never been any real checks on how this gang operates.
>
> This group has always lacked vision - they think of ICANN as their
> private corporation rather than a global institution that needs to
> function according to impartial rules. The whole corporate structure
> of ICANN allows them to redefine the rules any time they want, or to
> disregard them and redefine them retroactively.
>
> They just don't understand that there is a need to build
> trust and impartiality into the institution over the long term. They are
> always focused on short-term measures designed to retain their
> control. That's why we got the response we got by trying to initiate
> an open discussion of the root. It scared them.
>
> That being said, I think many within ICANN's strucure are getting
> the message of new.net. They know that they had better get on
> with creating new TLDs. The problem is that the IP interests, to whom
> they have basically sold their souls, are dead set against that.
>
> >>> "Page Howe" <page@pagehowe.com> 06/18/01 01:24PM >>>
>
> I applaud ICANN for staying together on a limited budget and trying to
> please multiple aims and goals, but was the idea of a domain tax so gagable
> to people that we didnt create an organization with the best and the
> brightest from the start, and create a funded mechanism for receiving
> constituency input from the start, and didnt create a line of communication
> with registrants from the start.. and so on
>
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