On 1/29/15 6:10 AM, Avri Doria wrote:
Personally I am not looking for judgement that is beyond the process.
Also, I do believe that currently ICANN is run on a CEO top-down notion of judgement, and the reintroduction and repair of process is what is needed. Not more great men of vision.
Seconded. And to comment substantively on Kieren's comment, the Green and White Papers proposed to transform a monopoly, arising from the competitive tender resulting in the transfer of th NIC function from SRI to a small company in Virginia, to a competitive market. The USG did not carry out steps sufficient to substantively reduce the market power of the incumbent monopoly operator, which reasonably used its market powers, its position as the sole source of sufficient revenues, and its access to the American legal system to ensure the preservation of its market power. Complaining about the Courts and the formalism of legal proceedings without recognizing the ability of parties with substantial resources -- starting with the government's former single-source supplier of domain services for most of the rfc1951 namespaces not delegated to "Friends of Jon" -- to initiate suits (and in particular, to trigger the test of whether or not the Corporation is, or is not, exercising rule making authority delegated by an agency of Government) mistakes the effect for the cause. Eric Brunner-Williams Eugene, Oregon