[ga] Position Statement

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>]

I have read the ALSC document.

Without any real advantage to the cause they were to investigate the ALSC 
does not respect the consensus embodied by the White Paper and the MoU, 
limiting the Internet Participants representation to less than one third of 
the BoD.

It uses, as a technical gadget and a filter of doubtful result, the very 
core of the Internet which are the Registrants, their much demanded and 
awaited representation and their payments.

It adds the Indian region as I much asked for in here, but without China 
and Eastern Europe all the existing rules of seat distribution on a 
geographical basis are unballanced without real advantage..

It imposes on Internet stakeholders of every nature and revenues the 
additional charge of a Domain Name and of an additional Member fee, as to 
replace the disputed "pay to help" by "one dollar one vote".

It leads to real dangers for the stability of the entire ICANN as being 
detrimental to the ccTLDs which should have been - as LICs legitimate 
animators - the privildeged partners of the @large structure and to the BC 
and NCDNHC users constituencies of which the role becomes uncertain while 
they should have benefited from a measured @large introduction.

The technical aspects of filtering, selection, identification show seed of 
many discontents and controversial positions, unfair advantages, local law 
disrepects etc..

To my real regret, as we expected much from this study and from the 
participant to its team, as a candidate to the BoD,  I want to state that 
if I was elected I would oppose this proposition.



I call to a stable, simple and consistent scheme acknowledging the nature 
of the Internet as the consensus of its authoritative participants to 
utilize the TCP/IP protocol set under the IP addressing plan interfaced by 
the DNS. This scheme will have to:

- provide a neutral, professional and open support to the Internet virtual 
infrastructure through the Registy service of the Protocol numbers, of the 
IP address blocks and of the TLDs according to RFC 1591 and 920.

- obtain sure guidance through the open and cross-fertilizing oriented 
provision of common secretarat services and financing (as a virtual/real 
Internet campus) to the constituencies sharing into the  governance of the 
Internet at tructural level,

This will make:
- ICANN the keeper and the secretariat of the constituency consensus,
- constituencies the Members of the ICANN
- SOs the constituencies working groups with their Council and GA
The constituencies will be able to share in as many SOs they deem necessary.

Providing control and catalysis the BoD has to be balanced between netwide 
oriented experts - technical, political, legal - and seasoned user interest 
competences. To easily reach this candidacy will be in one of these two 
categories when elected by the assembly of the constituencies.

The GAC needs to be complemented by a Consummation Consultative Council to 
provide guidance to the SOs about the legal local impact of their 
propositions and about the Consumer reactions.

Constituencies have to be joined by Registrants - Individual and Bulk, 
Internet Users, Extended DNS designers for the market analysis and 
specification of the DNS evolution, and SMEs new Constiencies.

The @large constituency should be formed by voluntary participants to 
mutual interest services to the public, providing both identification and 
budget. Such services would be such as the participation to the UDRP 
juries, to responses to market studies, to polls on governance options, to 
the test of new services, to NIC governance, etc. keeping its members 
informed, active and rewarded all the year long.

If such an ICANN system is consensually accepted at necessary to the 
support of the Internet Participants, its cost has to be equally supported 
by all the participants through the price of the DNs, without any charge on 
Internet Users.

Every decision or proposition in the ICANN global structure will be 
proposed, debated, documented,   decided and referenced in using a same 
transparent on-line mail based system to be defined and will include a part 
telling how it fights the lingual, the digital and the financial divides.

Jefsey

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