On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Chris McElroy 786-317-8774 <namecritic@blogs.pn> wrote:
Should be no surprise. ICANN has seats on the board for business, which is really only representing large businesses, no one for small business owners whose interest is not the same. ICANN has additional seats for ISPs, who are big business owners. ICANN has seats to represent registries, which are big business due to ICANN's policies on prohibiting small business owners from operating one. ICANN then has seats for Intellectual Property interests, which once again represents big business for the most part.
Every board seat represents big business. Every vote represents the interests of big business.
oh please, one look at the Board tells me that this is completely untrue: http://www.icann.org/en/general/board.html (not up to date) Karklins represents gov'ts, Raymond Plzak is a numbering guy (everybody gets IP addresses, academia, CS, big and small biz, gov'ts), George Sadowsky has been in CS orgs the whole time I've known him, IIUC Robert Gaetano works for privaterra, which is a CS org, and i could go on and on about how board members who may work for corporations, really serve on the Board for the good of the Internet and not for their employers (Crocker, Woolf, Narten, Seltzer, Beca and Alvestrand spring to mind here). These ppl have worked as volunteers in the IETF/ICANN/IAB, etc for decades. All this ICANN hating is really boring I have to say. The rhetoric never changes, even tho it's not supported by reality. -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel