Re: [wg-review] constituency composition

[Michael Sondow <msondow@iciiu.org>]

Olivier Crepin-Leblond wrote:
> 
> ISOC is totally independent of ICANN.

Utter nonsense, as any serious study of the history of ICANN will
show. ISOC and CORE (a creation of ISOC) planned, created, and
implemented ICANN. A detailed analysis and history of how this was
done can be found at http://www.cookreport.com and also in an
excellent essay by Prof. Milton Mueller called "ICANN and Internet
Governance: Sorting Through the Debris of ‘Self-regulation’", in
INFO (Vol 1, No 6, December 1999). I can provide a copy of Professor
Mueller's article if anyone wants to read it, and if Dr. Mueller
doesn't object.

Mr. Crepin-Leblond either is unaware, himself, of what has actually
transpired in the creation of ICANN, or, if he is aware of it,
thinks that he can fool people on this list who have not been
directly involved and won't know the facts on the ground. Since I
was present at all the early meetings (Boston, Washington,
Monterrey, Singapore, and Berlin) I saw with my own eyes how ISOC
and CORE operatives manipulated and controlled all the processes in
the formation of ICANN and its DNSO.

> If ICANN
> members and officers are also members of ISOC, this is their own right.

I see. The fact that the ICANN BoD is controlled by ISOC officers,
and that the DNSO is controlled by ISOC and CORE officers, is just a
coincidence. Very interesting.

> They may also vote republican or democrat.

And if they all voted republican, for example, and were involved in
the Republican National Committee, and did Republican Party
fundraising, and were also themselves Republican party candidates
for office, (as they have done the equivalent regarding ICANN),
would you still maintain that all these activities had nothing to do
with ISOC policy and a plan to implement them through the Republican
Party (or, in our case, ICANN)?

> And hey, who knows, some
> may also be communists.

Or fascists, for that matter, hmmm?

> .. But this doesn't mean that the reds run ICANN...

No, of course not. What you see with your own eyes is without
meaning. The only meaning is the spin that's put on it by the spin
doctors. :-)

> I
> fail to understand why we need 101 other organisations to reflect the
> views of individual domain name holders when, IMHO, ISOC could
> take on that task.

Here is the nexus of Mr. Crepin-Leblond's mentality. Just leave
enverything up to Big Brother. The fascists will organize the world
for you, and you can sleep in peace knowing that all your decisions
have been made for you by the fascists who run your life. Oh, happy
days!

M.S.
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