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

[todd glassey]

The problem with the Palace Coup is that it violates any number of
agreements already in place between the organization and its members,
especially if any money changed hands...

Todd

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joop Teernstra" <terastra at terabytz.co.nz>
To: "Barbara Simons" <simons at acm.org>
Cc: "James Love" <james.love at cptech.org>; "Hans K. Klein"
<hans.klein at pubpolicy.gatech.edu>; "NCDNHC" <discuss at icann-ncc.org>;
<bwg-n-friends at jetty.net>
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: [ncdnhc-discuss] CYBER-FED No.15: The User Voice in Internet
Governance -- ICANNatlarge.org


> 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
> www.icannatlarge.com
> Sign up and spread the word.
>
>
>
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