At 23:18 15/12/2008, Danny Younger wrote:
Thanks to ICANN Staff for once more demonstrating that they will only give lip service to user concerns.
Dear Danny, I am afraid you could miss the point. I fear they do not care about users. May be, they only reluctantly give lip service to ALAC as a make believe. They only are interested in customers: ICANN's mission is to address a market. This point was clearly made in Paris by Pault Twomey answering Bertrand de la Chapelle who was reminding him the people who have not access to the Internet yet. Paul said he did not care. Not his job. His job is to those who directly or indirectly pay ICANN. Others had to join first. ICANN raises taxes and will do nothing that might endanger its tax collection priority. We just do not share the same values nor the same understanding of public service, common interest and people. This is the main difference with IGF and its three person bureaucracy. This is why france@large was denied by staff, whi did not even care to answer (so we cannot file a complaint with the Ombudsman). The same here: in the staff proposed way, users will not have any legitimate claim to call on the Ombudsman. This is why we now prepare for 090901. A supposedly "Internet for everyone ICANN" was of interest, a pure "staff controlled Internet for the Rich ICANN" represents no more interest for us. Only a potentional threat justifying for a few of us lurking in here. Actually, relating with it could be forbidden by the French law. No member corporations ("sociétés en main mortes") are considered as robber gangs, since the vote of the night of August 4th, 1789 - these pople has some vision! jfc