Re: [ga] No room on the bus

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

Michael and all assembly members,

Michael F. McNulty wrote:

> Danny:
> I can't imagine why you would want to be hosted by someone
> who wants to undermine everything that has made the Internet
> such a success.
> Michael McNulty

  He doesn't and they don't.  I think that Danny made that point, although
indirectly, quite clear.  Thank you Danny!

>
>
> DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:
>
> > Dear members,
> >
> > It is my duty as your Chair to report on recent events.  As many of you know,
> > the General Assembly will be meeting on the evening of November 12 from 8PM
> > to 11PM.  The new.net organization kindly offered to sponsor our session by
> > providing food and beverage during our meeting (which comes at the end of a
> > very long day of back-to-back meetings).
> >
> > Protocol required that I contact Mary Hewitt as per the instructions posted
> > at http://www.icann.org/mdr2001/  because "Starting with the Marina Del Rey
> > 2001 meeting, there will be a new format for sponsorship opportunities for
> > this ICANN meeting."
> >
> > Ms. Hewitt rejected the sponsorship application of new.net citing the fact
> > that they did not support the authoritative root.
> >
> > I sent a reconsideration request to Stuart Lynn.  Mr. Lynn responded that "we
> > place bounds around whom we accept as sponsors. And new.net does not fit the
> > package."
> >
> > On the 1st of December 1955, Mrs. Rosa Parks, an African-American seamstress,
> > was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for failing to let a white bus rider take
> > her seat.   Today, ICANN has proven that discrimination is still very much
> > alive, and that there is no longer any room on the bus for those that don't
> > share the same views as ICANN staff.
> >
> > Although our Memorandum of Understanding with the US Department of Commerce
> > states:  "Neither Party, either in the DNS Project or in any act related to
> > the DNS Project, shall act unjustifiably or arbitrarily to injure particular
> > persons or entities or particular categories of persons or entities," recent
> > ICANN actions, from the issuance of ICP-3 to this sponsorship denial, make it
> > clear that ICANN is indeed acting to injure a particular cartegory of
> > entities.
> >
> > I thank new.net for demonstrating its commitment to participation in the
> > ICANN process and for its support of the General Assembly.  It is to our
> > shame that such efforts at participation are routinely being denied by those
> > charged with the coordination activities of the Internet.  This is a sad day
> > in our history, and I mourn the death of the concept of "fairness".
> >
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Regards,

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