[At-Large] [Gnso-liaison] Is Staff in bed with NetSol?

[Danny Younger]

Jefsey,

Let's be clear about something -- I joined neither the
IDNO nor the icannatlarge.com organization because
they chose to do nothing more than wrangle about
process, process, process.  These organizations didn't
spend a single moment on policy development, policy
analysis, policy review or policy implementation
initiatives on behalf of either their members or those
that they purported to represent.  The bulk of their
time was spent on who gets elected to what seat, on
motions to remove or censor other members, and on
continuous in-fighting until they both
self-destructed.

The organizations that manage to survive in the ICANN
ambit are the ones that make the defense of the
interests of their constituents their number one
priority, like the IPC.  The ALAC has not done that.

When registrants pounded at ICANN's door in the wake
of the RegisterFly disaster, did we see the ALAC do
anything?  When registrants can no longer successfully
transfer their domains owing to the behaviors of rogue
registrars, does the ALAC do anything?  When NetSol's
front-running captures the attention of both the media
and the tech community, do we hear of the ALAC rising
up forcefully to do something about it?  No, all we
hear about is the ALAC asking for more money.

The ALAC after six years is now nothing more than a
monolithic single point of failure that plays at
process, does nothing more than suck travel dollars
out of ICANN and helps to swell an already bloated
budget.

The ALAC never had the gumption to stand up for their
own representational rights, so how do you expect them
to have the tenacity or interest to fight for anyone
else?  All they seem to be able to do is issue
milktoast "Statements" and elect suppliers instead of
users to the NonCom.  Even when the NonCom Review
recommended that the ALAC seat two members on the
ICANN board, this useless group of noncommercial orgs
did absolutely nothing to push the point on behalf of
their own community -- this is a body that has become
less than useless.







--- JFC Morfin <jefsey at jefsey.com> wrote:

> Dear Danny,
> for nearly eight years I know you, I do not know if
> you have proposed 
> the text of a motion. I wander what is really your
> target: you are an 
> informed hard worker, and sometimes extremely good,
> on occasions 
> really brillant. However, I am afraid that instead
> of helping the 
> community and ICANN you are fighting both. I opposed
> you a lot when 
> you were GA Chair because you wanted to be the GA by
> your own and 
> speak by yourself on our behalf - not because your
> positions were 
> wrong (just sometimes, at that time, sophomore's
> positions - but that 
> time is gone). Then you were not really fighting,
> but not helping us 
> either with the IDNA and ICANN-alarge.
> 
> Could we not reach a modus vivendi, where we (you
> and ALAC) mutually 
> take advantage from the other, fight together for
> the users, rather 
> that you fighting the ALAC. ALAC is not a democratic
> representative 
> of the users, but certainly a sample of their most
> motivated ones. If 
> you/we do not teach them, how do you want them to
> know?
> jfc
> 
> At 00:30 17/02/2008, Danny Younger wrote:
> >the ALAC, in its role as the "voice of the
> individual
> >Internet users" has absolutely nothing to say on
> the
> >topic...
> >
> >no policy recommendations, no request for an issues
> >report, no request for a PDP, no request to ICANN
> >Staff for feedback as to whether NetSol practices
> >constitute a violation of the RAA -- instead, the
> ALAC
> >appears to be either totally clueless or horribly
> >irresponsible -- but what can you really expect
> from a
> >bunch of people that are just pretending to be the
> >at-large so that they can continue to milk the
> ICANN
> >cash cow?  If they really were the at-large, we
> would
> >have heard their outrage about these situations...
> >instead all we hear are their ongoing requests for
> >even more money while registrants receive no
> >assistance whatsoever from their "Voice" within
> ICANN.
> 
> 



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