Re: [ga] November 12

["L Gallegos" <jandl@jandl.com>]

Consider this a formal request to return to the original agenda for 
the annual ICANN meeting at Marina del Ray.  If necessary, add to 
the agenda any security issues pertinent to ICANN and only those 
items that fall within its technical scope.  It is also a must that 
there be consultation with the GA of the DNSO regarding any 
security issues that may impact the community.

There is no need to relegate the critical issues pending within the 
ICANN framework to a single day of "pre-meetings" that will most 
assuredly not be addressed during the meetings from the 13th-
15th.  Unless ICANN intends to further delay all these issues, 
including the postponement of all TLD launches, it must maintain 
its originally stated agenda and deal with pending issues, however 
painful or embarrassing they may be.

Why should it surprise anyone that ICANN would use or misuse 
the NYC tragedy to further its own corporate interests?  Security 
issues within ICANN's scope are strictly technical in nature and 
involve only the root servers and escrow of registry data as defined 
by contract.  These issues are already addressed and need only 
an agenda addition - not the entire annual meeting to address.  

ICANN does not have included within its scope the software that 
deals with DNS and BIND is NOT the only application for DNS, and 
is not necessarily the best.  There are a myriad of security issues 
throughout the US and the world.  ICANN has only a very narrow 
responsibility in the security area for the internet.

This is certainly an attempt to hijack the annual meeting, as has 
been mentioned in other posts, to the detriment of the at-large and 
individual domain name holders, not to mention the ccTLDs and 
other TLD issues.

In fact, it is these issues which are of utmost importance to the 
community which must have a voice in whatever security solutions 
are designed.  

Will anyone be further surprised when ICANN permanently delays 
inclusion of the at-large in decision making and claims that it is not 
in the best interests of the community (for security reasons, of 
course) to not have the "masses" involved?  Big Brother grows 
stronger every day.

Wake up, stakeholders.  Don't lose sight of the issues that face us 
all.

Leah


On 29 Sep 2001, at 10:29, Eric Dierker wrote:

> Just in case there is any doubt that this is a bottoms up consensus
> originated formal request.  I lend my poor and feeble voice to it on
> behalf of my brothers and sisters who happily allow me to write for
> them.  While Mr. Younger is a good and loyal representative of this
> body he tends to be more politick than us unsophisticated
> dotcommoners. Of course this is just a WOD*.
> 
> On behalf of dotcommoners I demand this time.  I also intend to
> forward these messages and an announcement of the meeting and Mr.
> Youngers' agenda to each and every news service I can find.  The
> background data builds a wonderful story of how us little people lose
> our rights as mega players jockey for power and money using
> catastrophe and necessity as the springboard for denial of what little
> we have.
> 
> Here is the unfolding of a classic story of the exclusive doctrines
> creating despair to a level which ultimately causes radicalism. These
> totalitarianistic actions by the BOD cause more harm to world
> stability than we yet know.
> 
> *"" {"WOD"} (Writing Of a Dotcommoner) = boring and humanistic to most
> technical people.  based in self serving adaptations of such
> principals as declarations of independence. Also known as WithOut
> Dinero, ergo no power.""
> 
> Sincerely,
> Eric
> 
> DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:
> 
> > Dear Diane,
> >
> > In the letter that Stuart posted to the Council (cited below), he
> > indicates that there is no reason that November 12 cannot still be
> > made available to those constituencies ,SO's and other ICANN
> > committees or task forces that want to hold meetings to consider
> > other pressing items on their agendas.
> >
> > Please consider this a formal request from the GA to convene a
> > six-hour session on Nov. 12.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Danny Younger
> >
> > > Dear colleagues:
> > >
> > > As you know, ICANN announced two days ago that the annual ICANN
> > > meeting would indeed occur on November 13-15 inclusive, and that
> > > the meeting would focus on security and stability of the
> > > Internet's naming and addressing systems.
> > >
> > > The original meeting, of course, was scheduled to start on
> > > November 12, not November 13. There is no reason that November 12
> > > cannot still be made available to those constituencies ,SO's and
> > > other ICANN committees or task forces that want to hold meetings
> > > to consider other pressing items on their agendas. Apart from
> > > these agenda items, such meetings might also be useful for shaping
> > > input on any items that are on the Board agenda. You may recall
> > > from the announcement that the Board may decide to take up items
> > > where "time is of the essence".
> > >
> > > Making use of November 12 for these or other purposes would help
> > > to ensure that we can all focus on the core security agenda the
> > > following three days. Once the details of this core agenda are
> > > firmed up, constituencies and SO's may also want to use the
> > > November 12 opportunity for advance consideration of the "security
> > > agenda". There will, however, be times set aside during the three
> > > days of the security focus for constituency and other meetings to
> > > address specific security considerations.
> > >
> > > Any constituency, SO or other ICANN committee or task force
> > > wishing to hold a meeting on November 12 should advise Dianne
> > > Schroeder so that she can work with the unit involved to schedule
> > > meeting space.
> > >
> > > Stuart
> > > --
> > >
> > > __________________
> > > Stuart Lynn
> > > President and CEO
> > > ICANN
> > > 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
> > > Marina del Rey, CA 90292
> > > Tel: 310-823-9358
> > > Fax: 310-823-8649
> > > Email: lynn@icann.org
> >
> > --

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