Pete Farmer wrote:
>For the record, of the 10 feedback comments to Mr. Cooper's op/ed piece, 6
>are "on Jay's side," 2 are pro-Dyson, and 2 offer no opinion. Of the 6 "on
>Jay's side," 4 are formatted normally.
>
>Reality check, Jay. Possibly you and Ellen pasted your replies, instead of
>typing them directly? Possibly the paste routines automatically inserted
>linefeeds after a certain number of characters?
>
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2298770,00.html
I don't ascribe any conspiracy theory here with the formatting of Jay's and
my reply. I tried three times to type in my response to the ZDNet piece
using the online form for doing so. Each attempt failed, so in frustration
I finally sent my comments directly to Cooper and asked him to get them
posted. I was, frankly, disappointed that my comments are so hard to read.
I rarely contribute feedback comments because there's simply not enough
time to do so while reading articles and emails, listening to Congressional
hearings, monitoring ICANN's activities, maintaining my website, making a
living and being a mom--but Cooper's article was so completely off track
that I just had to respond.
FWIW, I don't concur with Jay's theories about a biased press. We have
not bias but confusion. This evolution of the DNS is complicated,
convoluted, and contentious, so it isn't easy to report on the activities
of ICANN and the Department of Commerce in terms that the general
readership can understand. IMHO, only about a dozen reporters have a good
grasp on the issues because they track this process full time and have been
on the beat for several years.
The business community has been very quiet through all this sturm und
drang, and frankly, I question whether most people care. I've seen little
evidence that the preponderance of the Internet community is interested in
how such decisions are made or who makes them so long as their individual
needs for specific domain names are met. So when ICANN speaks of global
consensus, it is to laugh. Most people from whom such highly touted
consensus is supposedly derived don't even know the issues, the conundrums,
the players and antagonists, the organizations, the structure, or the
nuances in the meaning of the word "consensus". Among those of us who care,
perhaps 2,500 people by my rough estimate, there certainly has been no
consensus but rather divisiveness at every turn.
I wish I could believe this process is now in a stage of course correction,
but IMHO, it's not just Cooper's article but also ICANN that is completely
off track. People have asked why I am not participating on a working
group. I ask how can such work proceed when the membership structure is
not yet in place. Without building a solid foundation, the walls won't
stand.
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