[At-Large] [NA-Discuss] Letter to the Board

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

Have you considered that perhaps ICANN has been beating the new gTLD
drum for so long, the local community simply has other concerns?

This, to me, is a proof that ICANN is just not inline with the
challenges facing the Internet today. Prompted by a small group of
companies which are solely domain-name registries/registrars,  ICANN
is dazed by a complete focus on domain name issues and tries to kid
itself that other issues such as IPv6 migration/transition for
example, are none of its business. Have you asked yourself whether Mr.
Egyptian Joe or Egyptian Co. Inc. is bothered about domain names?
Domain names are a rich man's game.

Evan, with all due respect, you should not be "disgusted" that the
local community did not attend. Much rather, you should be concerned
and we should all work together to try and find out why it ended up
this way.

Warm regards,

Olivier

-- 
Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond, Ph.D
Global Information Highway Ltd
http://www.gih.com/ocl.html




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Vande Walle" <patrick at vande-walle.eu>
To: "At-Large Worldwide" <at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
Cc: <kieren.mccarthy at icann.org>; <na-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: [At-Large] [NA-Discuss] Letter to the Board


>
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:25:19 -0500, Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org>
wrote:
>
> > I was disgusted by the fact that NOT one of the "local community"
> > bothered to attend the actual conference. Perhaps they would have
> > understood, having done so, that ICANN is not IGF.
>
> I agree with Evan.
>
> I will add  that the local Internet community's concerns may not fit
into
> ICANN's narrow mandate. When we tried to outreach to the local
community
> for the ICANN meeting in Luxembourg, we found out that the
individual users
> concern at the time was mainly the high price of broadband access,
not the
> allocation of globally unique identifiers on the Internet. 3 years
later,
> it still remains a challenge at the ALS level to get meaningful
input from
> our membership on issues that are within the mandate of ICANN. So
much for
> local Internet community involvement.
>
> I think it is crucial not to turn the ALAC, RALOs and At-large into
a
> generic end user caucus on all Internet issues. We need to remain
focused
> if we want to be relevant.
>
> Patrick
>
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