Re: [wg-review] 3.Constituencies - RTF Report

[Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>]

1/30/01 1:13:54 PM, Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com> wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:19:23AM -0800, Eric Dierker wrote:
>> My son asked me the other day which type of government was most
>> successful.  I answered with the question, "from whos point of view the
>> governed or the government?".  Fidel Castro's reign in Cuba is extremely"
>> successful in that he has remained in power for so long.  There are many
>> examples of success from the point of view of the governed.
>
>Here you express one of the most pernicious misconceptions about ICANN.  
>ICANN is NOT A GOVERNMENT.  If you persist in trying to think of it in 
>those terms you are doomed to disappointment, and your comments are 
>meaningless.

But this is where you stop, Kent.  Why don't you go on and tell us what ICANN 
is exactly.  

I think all of us are aware that ICANN *is* a Not-for-Profit Organization, structured
on a corporate model.  Some of us do understand what the corporate model requires. 
What I am saying to you Kent, is that many of the @Large stakeholders in the 
corporation ICANN are beginning to feel as if things are not being done according to
the rules of the ICANN itself.  However, what *is* going on *is* being labeled as "in the
name of the ICANN", but does not necessarily reflect what is in ICANN's best interests.
We have been given a right to a voice, in the very By-Laws of ICANN, and we're speaking
up.  The real question is: Are any of you people going to start listening, or are you paid agents 
provocateurs, out to ruin our Corporation? 

 


Sotiris Sotiropoulos
          Hermes Network, Inc. 


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