At 00:53 07/06/2008, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
And my litmus test is the ALAC review.
Dear Evan and Dominik, I agree with most of what you say except that being a pragmatic old timer (long before ICANN) I am not candid or hopeful. I am just an Internet @large and I consider ICANN as I consider FTP. Do I need it ? No. Must I support it ? Yes because others use it and it may become a pain to me otherwise. Should we want it to disappear? It would be replaced until the concept eventually becomes obsolete, but it can be a real nuisance in the meanwhile if we do not help its graceful evolution. Will it willingly and decently cooperate? This is what we wanted to check through the france@large accreditation. So far, the answer seems to be "no". We are dismayed, but not surprised, nor disapointed: this is ICANN. Our focus is now on understanding how to force ICANN to cooperate to the best operational interest of all the Internet @larges. The first step is for ICANN to understand what such a best interest is (something I fear the ICANN @large have no real idea). We wanted to be able to explain it from within ALAC; so it could be internally checked and discuss. We will have to do it by our own. It may take more time, it may call for more conflicts. If this happens, just remember we proposed to cooperate and still do. ALAC voted "no". Their responsibility. jfc