[ncdnhc-discuss] ISOC to bid on .org

[James Love]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kent Crispin" <kent at songbird.com>
: Does this mean that you are strongly in favor of accurate, public whois
: data?

 I do believe that a government policy in favor of accurate whois data is a
reasonable measure to address unlawful activity on the Internet.  How
"public" that data is probably not a simple binary set of choices, and I
also support methods of addressing legitimate privacy concerns.  But I would
certainly agree that the MPAA or the BSA should be able to determine who is
the registrant for a web site that was disseminating infringing materials,
and I understand why governments want to require this.  I don't think ICANN
itself has to go further in terms of enforcement of copyright or other law
enforcement issues, other than to obey laws passed by real governments.

:
: >   The fact that it is "working" in the CIRA is relevant
: > information.
:
: Nope.  Not "fact".
:
: 1) It is not a "fact" that it is "working" for CIRA - the low turnouts
: raise some serious questions that you and Hans wave away because it
: doesn't fit with your ideology.

     This is insulting and silly.  What is your "ideology" about the CIRA?
Is it "ideological" to disagree with you?  What is the "ideology" regarding
popular democratic elections?  Being against fascism, communism or other
authoritarian systems?  This is really silly.   I'm happy to look at more
elitist models, and have even proposed one that I would be ok with.  If you
shrunk ICANN and have a narrow terms of reference, you could probably have
lots of different entities do it, maybe even John Postel if he was still
around.   But looking at the well functioning .ca ccTLD, which works, is
stable, has a well qualified board, and has adopted "best practice"
policies, makes it hard to dismiss, unless one has a bias.

What is your point on the turnout?  How can you say that any partricular
level of turnout is too low?  You just winging this one?  Because you don't
like Karl and Andy?  I have said that a 1 percent turnout for the GDSO would
be fine with me.   What is your basis for saying 1 percent would be too low?

I would be happy to take a random sample of domain holders, and have them
choose some board members.   Lots of things might work.  You never bother to
defend anything positive in terms of board selection.  You hate popular
elections, but what is your alternative?

: 2) It is not a "fact" that the CIRA elections are relevant to ICANN.

    Certainly they are relevant, but also certrainly some ICANN staff and
Board want to pretend they are not relevant.

:
: >  The fact that Jonathan Cohen is on both the CIRA and the
: > ICANN board illustrates that ICANN board me be over reacting to Karl and
: > Andy's elections.
:
: Nope.  Not fact that Jonathan Cohen's positions illustrates anything
: about the ICANN's boards reactions.  The quality of the elected
: directors is simply a red herring.  The issue is the director selection
: process, not the current directors.

    The quality of the elected directors seems to be one of the two most
important outcomes to me.  The second one being fairness.

    When ICANN can come up with a system that addresses both the quality and
the fairness issue, let's look at it, as a real alternative to a popular
democracy.    We know what you don't like.  What do you like?

: > I'm not really a hard liner even on the issue of at large elections.  I
: > can imagine ways of organizing a shrunken ICANN where elections really
are
: > not needed, or other systems of electing a board would be ok.  The
details
: > are everything.   But the idea that elections are not feasible or don't
: > produce good board members isn't true empirically, either for ICANN or
the
: > CIRA.
:
: You mixed up 4 different things; I'll just address one: the empirical
: evidence from the ICANN elections is very strong that they are simply
: not feasible, and that is well documented -- eg, the method of voter
: identification (physical mail) simply didn't work (there was a huge
: amount of returned mail from China, for example).

    Well, ICANN's own study said the elections were feasiable, as pointed
out by Adam.     The proposal was to use domain name registrations for voter
registration, and why won't that work?

    Also, who on ICANN staff works on the at-large.org web site and the
at-large.org activities?

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