Re: [ga] Open letter to the .US Policy Council

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

Danny, Nancy and all assembly members,

  It is and has been obvious sense '99 that the ICANN BOD and most
especially the ICANn staff seeks and often does stack "Councils",
"Task Forces", and the like.  This sort of practice cannot adequately
or even accurately reflect the stakeholder/users and in this instance
the .US Domain Name registrants.  Hence it is just as obvious
that the .US Council (See below) is a near Rubber Stamp group.


DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:

> Dear members of the .US Policy Council:
>
> Jonathan Hudis, American Intellectual Property Law Association
> Tom Cunningham, Bulk Register, Inc.
> Juan Otero, National League of Cities
> Michael D. Palage, Attorney
> Joe Rubin, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
> Larry J. Singer, National Association of State Chief Information Officers &
> Georgia Technology Authority
> Claudette W. Tennant, American Library Association
> David Wascher, Delegated Manager, The Registry at Info Avenue
> James Casey, NeuStar, Inc.
> Tom McGarry, NeuStar, Inc.
>
> I am writing to you through the vehicle of the discussion list provided by
> the General Assembly of ICANN's Domain Names Supporting Organization because
> you have not seen fit to provide a discussion list whereby members of the .US
> Community can directly pose their concerns to you.
>
> Having attended the Senate hearings in Washington yesterday on S2537/HR3833,
> the Dot Kids implementation and Efficiency Act of 2002, it was my expectation
> that the policy advice of your Council would have been tendered for
> evaluation by the Committee.  I am not aware of any such advice being
> publicly submitted, nor do I recall seeing any members of the Council present
> at this session (with the exception of NeuStar staff such as Jim Casey, the
> NeuStar Director of Policy and Business Development that served as a panelist
> at the hearing).
>
> In the four months since you were convened as a policy body, I have yet to
> find on the NeuStar website any indication that your Council has ever met,
> and no minutes of any meetings have ever been posted.  You have not seen fit
> to provide the ccTLD manager with policy guidance relative to reserved names,
> nor to the currently undelegated name spaces (which prompted a recent
> amendment to the DoC SOW invoking an "interim policy"), and clearly you have
> offered no publicly-posted guidance at all with respect to policy
> considerations on how to best govern the kids.us namespace.
>
> You have not posted any schedule for your meetings, nor are your names on the
> NeuStar website linked to contact email addresses so that you might be
> accessible and responsible to the public that you serve.
>
> Is it your intent to actually be communicative and get some work done, or is
> this Council (half of which is populated by members of the registrar
> community) just another hoax and sham?
>
> regards,
> Danny Younger
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