Good to see you alive and kicking, Michael! ;-)
The original 1998 agreement mandated that nearly half of the ICANN board would represent users (9 of 19). Had that commitment been honored and had it been implemented fairly (i.e. through elections), then ICANN would have had much to recommend it. I think that is a widely-shared view. Hans At 09:07 AM 6/3/2002 -0400, Michael Sondow wrote: >Hans Klein wrote: > > > CivSoc has offered the following comments to ICANN on reform. > > > DoC should stay the course. It should work closely with ICANN to fully > > implement the original 1998 Internet privatization policy. > >What a crock! CPSR are a bunch of toadies sucking up to the DoC. Hans >"Chamberlain" Klein is just looking after his plitical future, appeasing >both ICANN and the US GOV. There's only one solution to ICANN: >elimination! > > > That policy > > addressed the inescapable need for legitimacy in ICANN with a mechanism > > that proved workable in 2000: elections. > >Is that the exercise here: to legitimate a bad organization by giving it >a cover of ineffectual user representation? Thanks, CPSR, for usurping >the place of any real user representation in Internet governance. With >friends like you and CDT, the users don't need enemies. > > > By avoiding a major > > restructuring, DoC also avoids the destabilizing combination of > > organizational change and staff turnover. > >Destabilizing? That's ICANN's own excuse for doing nothing positive. >Klein shows his true colors here by adopting ICANN's own dishonest >pretext. > > > Finally, by staying with the > > original privatization policy, DoC would uphold the Internet traditions of > > private, voluntary, and decentralized management. > >The original DoC policy was a lie, a PR contrivance to trick Internet >users into complaceny and allow the ICANN imposters to take over. ICANN >knew that there was no organized "Internet community", and that it could >stick in its own people by pretending to turn over governance to a >non-existing community. That was its "original privatization policy". >CPSR are its dupes. > > > DoC should use all available means to gain ICANN's commitment to > > implement the founding agreements of 1998. > >DoC and ICANN are one and the same. ICANN has always implemented the >DoC's wishes. Only fools and toadies can't see that, or don't want to >admit it. > > > ICANN should cooperate with DoC in this process. > >Ha-ha! Can you see it: Hans "Chamberlain" Klein at the next ICANN >meeting with a sign saying "ICANN should cooperate with the Doc". Could >anything be more ludicrous? What are we, stupid children that can be >spun this garbage? > >M.S.
