[ga] Dependence on the DNSO Secretariat

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

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Dear Ken

I see that you chose to share my private correspondence to you with
Elisabeth Porteneuve.  So you won't mind if I remind you of my earlier post
as follows:

On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 00:11:27 +1000, I wrote:

> (1)    Lack of Resources, Dependency.  The GA is hamstrung by the NC
> control over GA operations.  They (the NC) control the budget for travel
> to ICANN conferences, secretariat, website, legal advice, translation etc.
> The DNSO Secretariat is answerable to the NC not the GA.  The NC closed
> down all the working groups at whim.    More importantly the NC controls
> the mailing lists and the website.

<snip>

> OK.  So what to do?  Well, part of it is obvious:
> (1)    Generate independent funding to reduce dependence on Names Council.

Your relevant response, on Mon, 11 Jun 2001 12:00:59 -04000, was:

> as to mailing list "control" the ga lists were established by the ga, not
> the NC, are monitored and mediated by ga people (and always have been) and
> located on the dnso maillist server and subsidised under the names council
> budget
>
> would you prefer that the ga maillists be placed on separate servers, if
> so, whose, and how do propose  to fund this seperate service ?
>
> as to the website, no one has stopped any of the ga members from putting
> up their own site Patrick, again there is a matter of funding here.. there
> are certain "economies of scale" which can be achieved by consolidation
> of all sites with a specific service.

So Ken, now that I have proved that we are dependent on the DNSO
Secretariat, you should withdraw the following remark:

> you statement above is an unfortunate example of the  "narrow  opinion" &
> "views" you refer to in paragraph #3 below.

I would also remind members of the General Assembly that we are never going
to achieve anything unless we have some resources of our own.

Best regards
Patrick Corliss




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