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.