On Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 02:56 Evan Leibovitch via At-Large <at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org> wrote:

On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 6:19 PM Barry Shein via At-Large <at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org> wrote:

As I've said for decades: Notice that WIPO, USPTO, et al don't allow
you to just register and squat on interesting strings. Or have rules
which make that a useless endeavor ("use it or lose it", etc.)

That's not due to a lack of imagination.

And yet ICANN knew better, deliberately avoiding the same ethos. Here, any collection of symbols is a commodity suitable for rent-seeking (both literally and figuratively). Barry even demonstrated this point by indicating that the new unregulated emoji system is ripe for exploitation, a necessary element truly to bring it inline with everything else in today's DNS.

That was my first clue coming in that ICANN's main non-technical policy function was (and still is) to legitimize the grift. Unfortunately it took me nearly a decade to figure out that At-Large as currently constituted,

cowed by budget restraints

It is a little tricky to discuss the need for sufficient funding for alac, because it gives room for convoluting the discussion as one for more 'travel funding' as has happened before. However it is imperative to amplify such a call as it is a core flaw in the design of the ICANN multistakeholder process. ALAC needs a liberal allocation as money in a bank account that the Chair could draw almost at will. ALAC without funds to operate, without funds to support At large, without funds for any programs, while the other parts of the ICANN community is affluent or powerful several fold, is an end user constituency (the Civil Society part in the multistakeholder process) that is not properly seated in the room with the respect and importance that it merits.

and the need to be loved by the grifters, provides cover for them while perfecting the art of bikeshedding. What I thought was a glimmer of light last year -- funds allocation to do an end-user survey about trust -- has been co-opted by this culture and (at the time I disengaged) had mutated into market research for Universal Acceptance. So much for hope.
Just my opinions of course.

- Evan

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