I fully support you in this effort Michael. I call on Vint Cerf to
publish the attack that he and /or Don Heath allegedly sent to
Barbara Simmons of the ACM questioning her fitness to be involved
because Milton Meuller dared to sit down with you and break bread in
Berlin. I have been told about this by many people. So far all are
too intimidated by the alleged viciousness of Mr. Cerf and Heath to
respond to my requests for copies of the correspondence which led to
your being excluded. Mueller has, as well, been driven completely
from the field. One may debate whether the harshness of your mid May
attack on Mr. Cerf was fully justified. But you at least made the
attack in public. Mr. Cerf should have the courage to do the same
and not use Heath to manipulate the effort from behind the scenes.
As it stands now the unfortunate result is that they are surely
grinning at the success of their tactics for having recruited Kathy
Klieman to their cause. Kathy has been told by several very
knowledgeable people that although she thinks she is using her
position to slow down the implementation of the WIPO standards by
ICANN she is making a huge mistake and should disassociate herself
from the likes of Heath and Bush. So far she refuses to do so and
she has consequently become a poster child for the success
ISOC/ICANN's strategy of dividing and atomizing interest groups in
order to push through its big corporate, big government agenda.
Let me say once again that if I can get and verify copies of what
went on behind the scenes, i will be glad to publish it. Mr. Cerf
should believe in what he is doing strongly enough to practice it in
public and outside the shelter of his ISOC lists.
>Bret A. Fausett wrote:
> >
> > In exchange for the constituency pie slices, we also received this:
> > "Individual domain name holders should be able to participate in
> > constituencies for which they qualify." (See,
> > http://www.icann.org/dnso-formation.html). At the time, I was
> > extraordinarily pleased.
> >
> > This phrase, "Individual domain name holders should be able to
> > participate in constituencies for which they qualify," should have meant
> > that individual domain holders with commercial sites could participate in
> > the commercial constituency, non-commercial sites in the NCDNHC, etc. And
> > individuals with trademark rights in a domain name should have been able
> > to participate in the trademark constituency (but the ICANN Board thought
> > otherwise).
>
>The ICIIU's proposal for the NCDNHC includes individual
>non-commercial domain name holders. We only agreed to their
>exclusion from the NCDNHC as a compromise with ACM and ISOC in the
>Berlin negotiations, and on the understanding that they would be
>given their own constituency.
>
>Since the ICIIU and its supporters - the only legitmate
>non-commercial domain name holders involved in the NCDNHC formation
>- have been pushed out of our constituency by the ISOC/CORE
>usurpers, the ICIIU no longer has any reason for compromising with
>ACM and ISOC and therefore reaffirms its original constituency
>guidelines.
>
>The NCDNHC (that is, the rightful NCDNHC) welcomes individual
>non-commercial domain name holders, and makes common cause with IDNO
>and the constituency-less, disenfranchised stakeholders who are
>being thrown into the powerless General Assembly.
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