Re: [wg-review] [CONSENSUS] " ICANN head pledges consensus "

[Derek Conant <dconant@dnsga.org>]

Governor Gray Davis (D) of California also believed that the Bush Administration
was going to support his efforts, especially concerning the California energy
crises.  However, it doesn't look like that will continue to happen unless Governor
Davis gives some real and significant concessions.

I believe that the roadmap the government is going to set forth for ICANN will
demand significant change in ICANN's self-serving and erroneous policy and unfair
(and undefined) consensus processes.  I also believe that the government is going
to direct ICANN to include international Internet constituency representatives to
play key roles in the control, management and integrity of the DNS.

However, if there are no demands made upon ICANN and its supporting organizations
by international parties to allow international Internet constituency
representatives to play key roles in the control, management and integrity of the
DNS, then the US and its allies will probably not allow any such international
participation if they they believe that they can continue to exclude it and get
away with it.

Why should government give ICANN a directive to allow international Internet
constituency representatives to play key roles in the control, management and
integrity of the DNS, if international parties are not demanding such significant
and necessary concessions?

This is a truly a new World that we live in.

Derek Conant


Sotiropoulos wrote:

> Yes... "consensus", but there's still no definition... and there's even talk of
> community input, no mention of *which* communities though.  Also, the very
> last line is quite interesting.
>
> ICANN head pledges consensus
> By Reuters
> 25 January 2001
>
> The new head of the Internet's naming body says his main goal will be to
> build consensus for policy decisions by involving Internet users worldwide.
>
> M. Stuart Lynn, new president and chief executive of the Internet
> Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, also said his lack
> of experience in ICANN policies would make him more impartial in dealing
> with the controversies that have riven the group in the past and continue to
> dog it.
>
> "I've followed ICANN for the past several years and have a sense of the
> major issues," said the British-born Lynn, whose appointment to the high-
> profile two-year position was announced this week.
>
> "It's less important where I stand than how I am able to bring people
> together."
>
> ICANN was established by the US government in October 1998 as a non-
> profit group to oversee management of Web domain names, a task
> previously handled by the government.
>
> Besides overseeing policy and technical aspects of handing out new Web
> domain names, it is also the final arbitrator on disputes involving the
> ownership of Web site names.
>
> "ICANN, as I see it, takes its lead not from me but from the Internet
> community as a whole," Lynn, a 63-year-old former mathematics professor,
> said in a conference call with journalists.
>
> "The Board of Directors of ICANN sets the policy but the policy is based
> very much on community input."
>
> Lynn, who officially takes over March 13, was formerly the chief information
> officer for the University of California system, with 10 campuses and more
> than 150,000 students, until his retirement in 1999. His salary will be
> US$245,000 per year, and his two-year contract can be extended an extra
> year.
>
> Lynn has held a number of other executive positions with computing
> organisations, and said his "geek credentials" include writing his first
> computer program 43 years ago.
>
> But ICANN has at various times been accused of being an ineffectual group
> too beholden to corporate interests at the expense of ordinary Internet users,
> as well being too US-centric.
>
> Outgoing President and CEO Mike Roberts said he did not expect the new
> administration of President George W. Bush to oppose ongoing privatisation
> of domain name management duties from the government to ICANN.
>
> "The basic principles of privatisation adopted by the Clinton administration
> are very bi-partisan goals," he said.
>
> "As long as we are following the roadmap set by the government, we should
> be fine."
>
>
> Sotiris Sotiropoulos
>           Hermes Network, Inc.
>
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