[chapter-delegates] Latest ISOC WGIG statement

[Alan Levin]

hi Vittorio and others,

On 30 Apr 2005, at 13:04, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
> ICANN is the organization that has just re-awarded the management of 
> .net to Verisign, notwithstanding the damages that it brought to the 
> stability of the Internet with its SiteFinder service 18 months ago; 
> and that steadily refuses to implement any level of privacy for 
> individual registrants of domain names, even when mandated by law 
> (e.g. in Europe), carefully servicing the interests of the 
> intellectual property industry of the United States. How can you say 
> that this kind of governance is "bottom-up" and "close to end users"?

Very good point, 'if' it happens. I agree that we should issue a joint 
chapter / HG announcement if and when the initial Telcordia 
recommendations are finalised and agreed by the ICANN board. I suspect 
this may take another week or two or more but it would be inaccurate to 
say that this is fait accompli.

> So, I would much like to extend to the list the discussion that we 
> have on these and other matters in the WGIG, so that ISOC could 
> perhaps make an informed and collective decision on what positions it 
> should be supporting.

I agree with this comment too. Vittorio, do you have any process in 
mind? Would the new publicpol list be the place to seek consensus, or 
publish drafts for comments, or will we continue with this list?

> I am sure I could gather a lot of interesting comments and ideas to be 
> then brought back into the WGIG. Unfortunately, it seems to me that HQ 
> is not interested in this, but only in defending the status quo and 
> pushing a business-oriented agenda.

I tend to agree with your comments here and I trust that this is also 
to answer Venis question as to what you meant by your comment:

> the present discussions are severely damaging the public image and the 
> internal cohesion of ISOC, and we encourage all parties to work to 
> reduce such damage and to ensure that all points of view in the ISOC 
> community find a way to be properly represented and taken into 
> account.

I assume that all you are inferring to is the lack of teamwork (and 
general sense of cooperation) between chapters and HQ.

Sincerely,

Alan