Re: The ICANN community (Re: [ga] Ballot question)

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

Marc and all assembly members,

  As you likely know or can easily figure out the ICANN BoD and
most specifically it's staff, is attempting to limit the participation
of stakeholders.  Ergo the term "ICANN Community".  This
would seem a politically motivated attempt to circumvent the
MoU and White Paper, yet again but the ICANN BoD,
and most specifically the ICANN Staff.

  I wonder if New.net  for instance, is considered by the
ICANN BoD and staff a member of their view of the
"ICANN Community"?

Marc Schneiders wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, at 15:19 [=GMT+0200], Jefsey Morfin wrote:
> > On 10:00 23/10/01, Jeff Williams said:
> > >Alexander Svensson wrote:
> > > > I'm not emotionally attached to the DNSO as such. We
> > > > probably agree that ICANN decisions on domain names
> > > > currently are not "Internet community consensus" but
> > > > rather "some major stakeholders consensus".
> > >
> > >   Even this is a bit reaching a conclusion at best, Alex.
> >
> > You may have noted that slight another wording change
> > by Stuart Lynn and others: "the ICANN community".
> >
> > An ICANN community consensus is when Stuart,
> > Louis and Joe make taken a "BoD" decision. You may
> > recall that there is "ICANN community consensus"
> > even on non existing documents (Stockholm).
>
> Since the term "the ICANN community" figures a lot in recent texts
> issued by ICANN, it may be usefull if some definition of it was
> launched 'officially'. Does the ICANN community include, e.g., the At
> Large members? Has it any democratic connotation? What is the
> difference with 'Net users'?
>
> The burden of the definition is on those who introduce and use the
> term, naturally. I could try some sarcasm, but will resist the
> temptation. So far I thought it was clever rhetorics. I hope I am
> wrong.
>
> Looking forward to an official reply.
>
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