<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div>ICANN is not the internet user community, it is a bunch of hard-working, intelligent, merited internet industry connected people with enough earned merits in their professional and educational careers to be allowed to speak to one another and participate in the ICANN in-crowd without harrassing each other. New people without merit are flushed out of the ICANN system as soon as their lack of merit is identified by the guardians of that unwritten rule, the 'stop spamming' bullies and their ombudsman who has plenty of better things to do in New Zealand than care about reforming this exclusionary meritocracy he can only arbitrate for.<br /><br />ICANN is no different than a harvard or yale social club that looks down on ideas presented by unmerited outside nobody people, whom the club disrespects simply because of their supposed lack of business card merits on their SOI. If your
SOI isn't valid to the unwritten, but prominent ICANN rule, merits=free speech, you are ganged up on, insulted, antagonized and condescended until the 'neutral' ICANN ombudsman censors you, thats the playbook, how the power structure of the meritocracy of ICANN keeps milking the golden cow, paid for trips all over the world, feeling important, like 'progress is occurring', justifying their merits, building their resume, conference after conference, call after call, "much accomplished but so much left to do" or "even as we continue to succeed, there is more work to be done", feel free to insert your own nonsense phrase, designed to selfcongradulate oneself and/or ones group for what actually amounts to masking 'progress' in a scheme of status quo continuance. <br /><br />U.S. Congress, please do not transfer the internet to a meritocratic oligarchy of merited people pretending to be 'the internet community'. The technological progress of earth is zero
because the global meritocracy was smart enough to figure out how to maintain the status quo while making it look like travel=progress to populations yearning for progress but will only get driveless cars and drones delivering packages they increasingly cannot afford.<br /><br />Ron</div></td></tr></table> <div id="_origMsg_">
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Roberto Gaetano <roberto_gaetano@hotmail.com>; <br>
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'parminder' <parminder@itforchange.net>; <br>
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[At-Large] R: R: R: Is ICANN's oversight really moving away from the US government? <br>
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<td valign="top"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;'>Parminder:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style='margin-left:35.4pt;'><span lang="EN-US">Unlike what many think, and Roberto Gaetano has argued, a treaty does not necessarily mean inter-gov mechanism for a body's functioning, I am asking for a treaty that simply establishes international law that allows ICANN to stay and function exactly as it does at present....</span><span lang="EN-US" style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;'></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;'> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;'>It was my intention not to further
comment to this thread, that is bringing us nowhere, because we disagree, and are both unable to convince the other party.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;'>So, we are all losing time.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;'>However, since you call me directly in your message, I will provide a *<b>last</b>* reply.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;'> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;'>Treaties are done by governments, not civil society. We are the internet user community, governments are in the GAC.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",
"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;'>If you believe it is an easy thing to do, please go ahead and do it. As I told you already, go and convince governments, and come back with something we can work on that is not just fluff – or ether.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;'>Since you are insisting in not doing that, I matured the convincement that you are well aware that what you propose will not be supported by governments, and you are just playing politics: words, that go nowhere.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;'>Actually, did you propose this to the GAC, which would be the appropriate forum? If yes, what was the answer? If no, why not?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;'>If I see a
meaningful draft, endorsed by a substantial number of governments, I will apologize to you and collaborate. Until I do not see this, I will remain of my opinion, that you are proposing something that is unfeasible.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;'> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;'>Cheers,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;'>Roberto</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;'> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;'> </span></p></div></td>
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