[ga] Re: Good bye

[Andy Gardner <andy@navigator.co.nz>]

At 1:44 PM -0500 12/18/02, DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:
>As of Tue 10 December 2002, 623 persons were registered in the DNSO GA voting
>registry.
>
>As of today, only those that belong to entrenched special interest groups may
>express their views by way of a vote.  As of today, only those that suck up
>to ICANN management may elect their own leadership.  As of today, the right
>to quantify the sentiment of the General Public through the voting process
>within an ICANN Supporting Organization no longer exists.
>
>Lest we forget, this is the price we paid for exercising our right to vote.
>It is the direct consequence of calling for a re-bid of the ICANN contracts.
>ICANN tolerates no dissent, and ICANN never once consulted with the
>membership of the General Assembly before deciding to write it out of
>existence.   Like the At-Large, members of the General Assembly are not
>viewed as "essential stakeholders", they are only viewed as a hotbed of
>critics to be silenced, a union to be busted so that the Cartel may thrive
>without "distractions".
>
>For now, the new "efficient" ICANN will attempt to manage a public trust, but
>it will never gain the trust of the public.

What he said.

Time to get Rage Against the Machine to do a song and video about this
whole sorry mess.


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Andrew P. Gardner
barcelona.com stolen, stmoritz.com stays. What's uniform about the UDRP?
We could ask ICANN to send WIPO a clue, but do they have any to spare?
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