Re: [IFWP] dnso.org lobbying tactics

[Andrew Q. Kraft, MAIP, Executive Director]

Jon,

To be completely clear to your members, you should also want to mention that
the amendments to the Paris Draft, which are supported by NSI, AIP and most
of the other supporters, and have been objected to (ie, most are fine either
way) by ANY of the supporters, are now "official". The amended drafts take
out any "veto"....the pre-clearance review, which is open also to ISPs and
Registrars, as well as Registries, do not prevent something from moving on
to ICANN...but rather stamp it with some clear facts (ie, the lack of buyin
from the group that has to implement the change) to ICANN.

Sincerely,
Andrew

Jon Englund wrote:
> 
> Milton,
> 
> You are quite correct that the note sent out was not as clear as it
> could have been.  While there had been a bit of confusion about which
> organizations have signed onto which version of the Paris draft, more
> detailed information should have been provided in the note.
> 
> We will not list publicly any endorsements resulting from the note below
> until we have gone back out to them with the appropriate additional
> information.
> 
> Jon Englund
> 
> > ----------
> > From:         Milton Mueller[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Reply To:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent:         Thursday, February 25, 1999 11:00 AM
> > To:   ifwp; Esther Dyson
> > Subject:      [IFWP] dnso.org lobbying tactics
> >
> > As you can see from the letter below, WITSA and ITAA are lobbying
> > their members to support the BMW proposal. In the process, they are
> > telling untruths about the alternative, Paris draft proposal. Ms.
> > O'Neill below implies that the Paris draft proposal was signed *only*
> > by NSI and ORSC. She does not mention the AIP, the DNRC, nor the 20+
> > ccTLD registries who have also supported the Paris draft. Furthermore,
> > using the time honored but now rather wearying ISOC-POC-PAB-CORE
> > tactics, they attempt to base their appeal for support almost entirely
> > on animosity to NSI, thus proving that they have no interest in moving
> > beyond the factional divisions that have stymied progress in Internet
> > administration for the past four years.
> >
> > Unfortunately, many WITA/ITAA members will not know enough about this
> > issue to perceive the false claims. Ms. O'Neill distributed a canned
> > boilerplate "letter of support" to their members, and presumably some
> > of them will forward it, filling in the blanks. This is perhaps a
> > foretaste of what the people who run the dnso.org consider to be
> > "representation" and "bottom up governance."
> >
> > The ICANN/White Paper process was supposed to represent "industry
> > self-governance" based on private-sector "consensus-building" outside
> > of government. It should be clear by now that the factions and
> > factional alignments have not changed, and that the process is nothing
> > more than a vehicle for one faction to win at the expense of others.
> > --MM
> >
> >
> >                 February 21, 1999
> >
> >                 TO:     Members of the World Information Technology
> > and
> > Services Alliance (WITSA)
> >
> >                 FR:     Sheila O'Neill, WITSA Executive Director
> >                 Jon Englund, ITAA Senior VP
> >
> >                 RE:     Internet Management Structure
> >
> >                 As a result of a note we sent around 3 or 4 weeks ago
> > requesting input, WITSA (along with 9 additional organizations) has
> > signed onto one of the proposals developed on how to structure the
> > Domain Names Supporting Organization (DNSO), which is part of the
> > Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
> >
> >                 We now would like to ask for the support of all
> > individual WITSA members by asking each organization if you would be
> > willing to endorse the proposal.  Below is a boilerplate endorsement
> > letter that you may use for this purpose.  We would also welcome the
> > support of any of your individual member companies, so feel free to
> > also
> > distribute this material to your members.  Anders Halvorsen will be
> > following up in the next couple of days with a telephone call or
> > e-mail
> > to find out whether you are willing to have your individual
> > organization
> > endorse the proposal.  Your support is important for the future of the
> >
> > Internet globally.  The decision-making process is moving quickly, and
> >
> > if you would like to support the DNSO application you must let Anders
> > Halvorsen know no later than Monday, March 1st.    If we do not hear
> > from you we will assume you cannot support the proposal or have not
> > had
> > adequate time to confer with your members.
> >
> >                 The organizations signing onto our
> > Barcelona/Monterrey/Washington proposal include:
> >
> > *       Electronic Commerce Europe (ECE);
> > *       European ISP Association (EuroISPA);
> > *       Information Technology Association of America (ITAA);
> > *       International Chamber of Commerce (ICC);
> > *       International Council of Registrars (CORE);
> > *       International Trademark Association (INTA);
> > *       Internet Society (ISOC);
> > *       Policy Oversight Committee (POC);
> > *       World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA);
> > *       American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA).
> > *
> >                 The proposal, submitted to ICANN by their deadline of
> > February 5th, can be found at:  http://www.icann.org/SOapps.html  Only
> >
> > one other proposal was submitted.  This competing proposal was signed
> > by:
> >
> > *       Network Solutions, Inc. based in Herndon, Virgina, USA (which
> > currently has a monopoly over the allocation of the .com, .org, and
> > .net
> > domains); and
> > *       The Open Root Server Confederation (a small group of 7 or 8
> > individuals).  ICANN has been transferred authority by the U.S.
> > government for oversight over some of the Internet's centralized
> > functions, such as the allocation of domain names, the address system
> > and management of the Internet's 13 root servers, located around the
> > world.
> >
> >                 This proposal gives one constituency, the domain name
> > registries, veto power over any ICANN decisions.
> >
> >                 The proposal endorsed by WITSA includes some basic
> > principles, such as:
> >
> > *       the importance of ensuring geographical diversity in
> > participation;
> > *       ensuring all the various constituencies have an equal voice
> > and
> > encouraging the development of minority perspectives; and,
> > *       using a bottom up representational model of governance in
> > developing policy recommendations.
> >
> >                 We would like as many additional endorsements as
> > possible by the time of the ICANN Board's meeting on March 3rd, when
> > we
> > expect they will make a decision on which proposal to accept related
> > to
> > how to structure the DNSO.
> >
> >                 Please do not hesitate to contact Sheila O'Neill
> > ([EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ) or Jon Englund
> > ([EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ) with any questions.
> >
> >                 Thank you.
> >
> >
> >

-- 
Andrew Q. Kraft, MAIP
Executive Director, Association of Internet Professionals (AIP)
Email:      [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone:      310-724-6589
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