Have you considered that perhaps ICANN has been beating the new gTLD drum for so long, the local community simply has other concerns? This, to me, is a proof that ICANN is just not inline with the challenges facing the Internet today. Prompted by a small group of companies which are solely domain-name registries/registrars, ICANN is dazed by a complete focus on domain name issues and tries to kid itself that other issues such as IPv6 migration/transition for example, are none of its business. Have you asked yourself whether Mr. Egyptian Joe or Egyptian Co. Inc. is bothered about domain names? Domain names are a rich man's game. Evan, with all due respect, you should not be "disgusted" that the local community did not attend. Much rather, you should be concerned and we should all work together to try and find out why it ended up this way. Warm regards, Olivier -- Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond, Ph.D Global Information Highway Ltd http://www.gih.com/ocl.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Vande Walle" <patrick@vande-walle.eu> To: "At-Large Worldwide" <at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Cc: <kieren.mccarthy@icann.org>; <na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 8:39 AM Subject: Re: [At-Large] [NA-Discuss] Letter to the Board
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:25:19 -0500, Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org>
wrote:
I was disgusted by the fact that NOT one of the "local community" bothered to attend the actual conference. Perhaps they would have understood, having done so, that ICANN is not IGF.
I agree with Evan.
I will add that the local Internet community's concerns may not fit
into
ICANN's narrow mandate. When we tried to outreach to the local community for the ICANN meeting in Luxembourg, we found out that the individual users concern at the time was mainly the high price of broadband access, not the allocation of globally unique identifiers on the Internet. 3 years later, it still remains a challenge at the ALS level to get meaningful input from our membership on issues that are within the mandate of ICANN. So much for local Internet community involvement.
I think it is crucial not to turn the ALAC, RALOs and At-large into a generic end user caucus on all Internet issues. We need to remain focused if we want to be relevant.
Patrick
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