"Ross Rader" <ross@tucows.com> wrote: [...]
The DOC consultation seems to be saying, we don't trust the organization that we delegated this responsibility to (that of global consultation on DNS policy issues) so we're going to undertake an international consultation.
The impact of this is two-fold - it diminishes the power and importance of ICANN as the organization where DNS policy matters are dealt with and more importantly, it diminishes the power and importance of individuals in that process.
I completely agree and would add that the flipside of this is that other governments (for example, in Europe) take this as a proof that ICANN is just a puppet organisation used by the US government to "control" the Internet. Why is this happening? Why feed conspiracy theorists? Why weaken ICANN? What good does this bring to the common table? After all, are we (in the widest term) not all supposed to work for the public good? O. -- Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond, Ph.D. E-mail:<ocl@gih.com> | http://www.gih.com/ocl.html