The board rejected their power grab. That's gotta hurt. Wish they weren't using the tried-and-true methods totalitarian governments use to quash free speech, though, to make their case. Ironic. I got lots of other things I'd rather be doing, believe me. Good luck to the next NCUC/NCSG liaison. -----Original Message-----

From: Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org> Sent: Aug 25, 2009 10:51 AM To: Beau Brendler <beaubrendler@earthlink.net> Cc: Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca>, ALAC Working List <alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Subject: Re: [ALAC] And part 2

Beau Brendler wrote:

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Here's some more haranguing, including a public posting by the former chairman of the NCUC, Milton Mueller, which details his perceptions of my failings in the job of NCUC liaison.

And we wonder why we are having trouble getting volunteers?

Some of the grievances of NCUC may be legitimate, but the depth of bitterness, paranoia and personal attack shown in the exchange is inexcusable. Even if they had a point it was lost amidst the, er, unique style of debate.

This a really unhelpful distraction. We have a massively complex gTLD infrastructure coming up rapidly, registrar and registry practices to monitor, intense pressure by the trademark lobby to inflict major mission-creep, increased threats to Internet user security and privacy .... and this crap.

I find it unfortunate that the unprecedented level of civil society mobilization recently undertaken by NCUC comes not a a result of any policy-driven initiative, but rather as a result of an internal power struggle. What a waste.

- Evan