[ALAC] Rules of Procedure - Draft for discussion at 26 March ALAC meeting

[Evan Leibovitch]

On 27 March 2013 15:08, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:

this is not then.
> this is not the same situation.
>

You're right. It's worse.

ICANN 1.0 wasn't anywhere near the money magnet of the current rev. Tens of
millions of dollars are now at stake, in a way they were not during the
kindler, gentler (and arguably goofier) "Postel culture".

We have vested interests injecting themselves into our issues when the
cause suits (after all, the CEO of [insert nasty corporate icon here] is,
on occasion, an Internet end-user too). We have lawsuits and Ombudspeople
and politicians weighing in, never more than a threat away. The
mischief-based incentives for gaming long ago were overtaken by massively
financial ones.

ICANN, it is wisdom, turned public interest gTLD management into a massive
land-grab. The gaming threats are more numerous and more nasty now than
they were back then.

- Evan