[ncdnhc-discuss] CYBER-FED No.15: The User Voice in Internet Governance -- ICANNatlarge.org

[Joop Teernstra]

At 10:55 a.m. 27/10/2002 -0800, Barbara Simons wrote:
>What does it mean for users' collective voice to persist?  It certainly
>doesn't mean that users have any meaningful input into policy making, let
>alone meaningful power.  To even suggest otherwise is to play into the hands
>of those who claim that ICANN is representing everyone.
>
>Why not come out and say that the so-called ICANN reform was a palace coup
>that disenfranchised the user community and eliminated any remaining
>vestiges of democracy within ICANN?  Why pretend otherwise?

Until last week the icannatlarge website highlighted the palace coup on its 
front page with the relevant quotation of Chuck Costello's speech in Accra.
Fresh instructions to the new webmaster, or his own initiative, have now 
"tamed" the website.

I have repeatedly proposed a set of webmaster accountability rules, but 
both Panel members responsible for the new "face" (Jamie Love and Hans 
Klein) are dragging their feet on bottom-up website content control.



--Joop Teernstra LL.M.--
former webmaster
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