Dave this is a perfectly reasonable comment. There is only one point
on which I STRONGLY disagree with it.
>you say: If ICANN fails it
>will be taken as a indicator that the net can not manage itself and
we will get "Adult" supervision which believe me we will not like.
Vint, Esther, John and other have said the same thing.....the
internet will be in danger, ecommerce will fail, etc is the
additional undertone that has gone along with these warnings from
senior net people.
Hey, we are reasonable enough people to make our own judgements if
you senior folk who claim have this specialized knowledge will just
be good enough to share it with us. Let us form our own opinions....
which is just a different way of saying to you: please be good
enough to defend and debate the assertions that you make.
In the absence of such reasoned debate there are far too many other
reasons to read into what then begins to look like the self-serving
nature of what's going on.
So look Dave. Do us a favor and let us know in detail *WHY* you fear
what happens will be so much worse than ICANN. Myself - I cannot
imagine what could be worse. Dyson, Cerf, Roberts, Patrick are
pushing their own agenda pedal to the floor and are doing it in such
a way as to rigg things so that participation of other people with
other ideas is done in such a way as to render anything but the ICANN
party line irrelevant. Government has requirements for openess and
accountability that have been neatly and tidily surgically removed
from ICANN. How can you not realize this? How can you keep
defending them? Give us substance and not assertions please.
>Gordon,
>
>My only comment is I wish the "unindicted conspirators" were as
>devious and organized as you claim. My experience is that they were
>not and still are not. I just don't believe that the ICANN Board (nor
>did the ITAG or the ISOC Board) meets in private to plot the takeover
>of the internet as I never saw or heard or attended any such meetings
>and I have rather good spies. People were trying hard to find
>solutions to difficult problems in a rapidly changing and complicated
>world -- it is hard.
>
>Maybe we/they were/are incompetent at laying out a good course but it
>was not for trying.
>
>I have a lot of unhappiness as to how ICANN is evolving but I just
>can't believe it is being done for bad or evil purposes.I also repeat
>something I said on an IP mailing manny moons ago. If ICANN fails it
>will be taken as a indicator that the net can not manage itself and
>we will get "Adult" supervision which believe me we will not like. We
>must make it work.
>
>
>
>MY OPINION,
>
>Dave
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