I belatedly saw how upset Pindar Wong was with ICANN lack of diplomacy and
arrogance in Singapore.
http://asia.internet.com/1999/3/3001-icann.html
Thanks to Pindar, who had been a wonderful host, all delegates in Singapore
had free connectivity for a week in their hotels, plus a whole bank of
connected linux machines at the conference site and lunches "on the house".
In Berlin, a hotelier was our host. All we got was a totally understaffed
luxury hotel, with a "business center" consisting of one unconnected machine.
In Berlin, the arrogance was in the final communiquee, that boldly
threatened to change the bylaws and pointedly ignored the application for
recognition of the self-constituted Individual Domain name owners.
I wonder who is going to be insulted in Santiago. The locals are going to
be sensitive about a fly-in, fly-out circus that only pretends to be
geographically diverse by having the same people meet in geographically
diverse places.
--Joop Teernstra LL.M.--
the Cyberspace Association,
the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
http://www.democracy.org.nz/idno/
