Shame on you Jon,
Not only have you disparaged the supporters of
the Paris Draft, but you have misrepresented
*both* the Paris and the BMW Drafts.
Your actions are highly suspect:-(
Trying to remain . . .
Respectfully,
Jay Fenello
President, Iperdome, Inc.
404-943-0524 http://www.iperdome.com
At 2/25/99, 12:12 PM, 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.
>>
>>
>>
>
