Evan and all, Diplomacy in and of itself solves nothing, never has. Action that works is the only internal method of solutions. Ergo, if the courts can effect a actual action that works, than unfortunately I am in support of doing so. It has been clear for years that internal discussions more often than not with ICANN Bod and staff, do not address the problems as they occur or at all. Of course with phoney Email addresses, cloesed lists, closed meetings, and far too many discussion lists, ICANN has made in part, it's own mess. However they were warned about this aspect of ICANN's many problems time and time again for years, but those warnings went either ignored or dismissed for whatever reason(s). To me this all boils down to poor leadership from the very beginning of ICANN. Evan Leibovitch wrote:
Sébastien Bachollet wrote:
Network Solutions' scheme is made possible by ICANN. ICANN allows companies that sell domain names to avoid paying registration fees for names cancelled within five days. Thus, Network Solutions can defraud customers at no cost to itself.
On one hand, I would love nothing better than to have ICANN found partially responsible for this mess by allowing the AGP to persist. If the risk of legal exposure causes ICANN to yank the AGP over the howls of registries and registrars, that suits me just fine.
(I am aware that there may be certain benefits to the AGP; however they are massively outweighed by demonstrated misuse.)
On the other hand, it does not speak well to ICANN's ongoing public consultation process if courts are proven able to accomplish what internal diplomacy can not.
- Evan
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