[ncdnhc-discuss] Committee on ICANN Evolution and Reform Seeks PublicSubmissions

[Barbara Simons]

Milton,
I'm not sure I agree with you.  While it's obvious that
ICANN couldn't care less about what the user community
thinks, it might be useful to have many folks expressing
dismay at the blatant power grab that we have just witnessed.
The wider political forces to which you refer are more likely
to pay attention if many voices are heard in opposition.
Barbara

Milton Mueller wrote:

> Erick:
> Thanks for forwarding this, I think.
>
> I would encourage NCDNHC members not to waste their
> time submitting comments to this particular process.
> The degree to which ICANN will be restructured is now
> in the hands of the US Government and wider political
> forces. A great deal of behind the scenes activity is underway
> now; ICANN itself is widely perceived as a failure.
>
> A Board committee is not the forum in which these decisions
> should or will be made. The Board itself, which under the Lynn
> plan would be able to perpetuate itself by self-selecting
> its replacements in perpetuity, has a bit of a conflict of
> interest in reviewing other proposals, which is why the results
> of this particular exercise will not have much significance.
>
> ICANN management and its dominant Board faction has
> made it clear what it wants (the Lynn plan). The Board has
> indicated that it is willing to ignore its own hand-picked ALSC,
> which consumed hundreds of thousands of dollars, and it
> is more than willing to ignore the DNSO (.org, .info country
> reservations, etc., etc.) Why do you think it will be any
> different this time?
>
> I see no reason to expend any effort on this.
>
> --MM