Danny Younger ha scritto:
... and what has been the response of those of you that claim to represent the public interest?
Discussions pertaining to dealing with the policy issues raised by the RegisterFly event on every single RALO list have been almost nil. This is pathetic. You should be ashamed. You should be embarrassed.
Do any of you really care about the at-large, or are you just playing at Internet Governance?
Danny, please don't be ridiculous. In Lisbon, there was an entire session devoted to post-Registerfly actions, with several of us speaking. The ALAC drafted and released a resolution through a public process. Also because of that, the ICANN Board requested the CEO to start a process to deal with the matter. I've been taking a week away from my job to fly into a Board retreat in Mountain View, one fourth of which was devoted to "how do we deal with our responsibilities towards the general public". And no later than yesterday, I screwed up a dinner with friends because I got stuck in a 2-hour conference call of the GNSO Review WG, advocating (not alone) the creation of a constituency for individual registrants in the GNSO, exactly as one of the things that the Registerfly case shows as necessary. Sure, I don't think that Internet groups in Africa or in the Far East have been discussing a lot about the failure of a US registrar, but there's a long way before saying that no one in the At Large cares about the issue. Frankly, several ALAC members care a lot and I am sure that many of the ALSes do. I'd also be happy if the most active individuals who were affected by Registerfly formed an ALS and started to be active in the NARALO - I am sure that everyone would welcome them. For example, you could contact them and encourage them to join, or you could propose resolutions on this list (though I'd think that first you sort out the proceduralities, then you get to policy, and to this regard, the more you extend the discussion on operating principles etc, and the later you get to discussing policy). There is a lot of constructive things that you could do. Just do them. Regards, -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------