[Chapter-delegates] Multistakeholder governance - ISOC - and city-TLDs

[Christian de Larrinaga]

I have to admit I'm not enamoured with the prospect of firefighting the
 structural semantics across ICANN that have worsened the confusions and
dependencies surrounding the current generation of hierarchical
delegation of UIRs into the hands of protected fattened incumbencies.

I'd rather talent and energy is used to establish a new generation of
resource services which doesn't serve the user on a plate to
intermediaries as we have today.

The real test of our time and energy is to make ICANN as irrelevant as
possible.

As to city based TLDs... I mean goodness what is the point? Should tax
payers money really be spent in such huge amounts on putting what in
reality is just a short token string into a computer register?

Frankly what is going on in ICANN is sickening stuff.  With ICANN you
see how a talking shop designed to co-ordinate between user interested
parties instead now is escalating a dip cost of a .000001 or less into
an operational spend of c. $1m and then call the result "innovation"!

There are parts of the world that can't develop adequately and where low
cost unmediated access to data bidirectionally would help a lot with
health, sanitation, education, trade, access to financial resources,
weather forecasts, news, .... I don't need to go on.

That and removing growing hierarchies in the ICT resource world is where
the resources ICANN is swallowing up should be prioritised.




Christian

Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:
> Dear Christopher:
> 
> On 27/06/2013 21:26, CW Mail wrote:
>> I disagree with the point of view enunciated by Konstantinos and Alejandro. Absent a serious policy position by ISOC, significant lacunae and errors have emerged in the ICANN new gTLD process:
> 
> You are very kind to only list 3. IMHO there are dozens of problems,
> many of which the community has tried to resolve under great amounts of
> pressure. Pointing out the problems is one thing, and I believe the ship
> has already sailed on the pinpointing, but resolving them is what needs
> a lot of volunteer engagement and I look forward to see more people get
> engaged in trying to find solutions.
> Kind regards,
> 
> Olivier
> (own opinion only)
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