[Chapter-delegates] New version of ICANN At-Large Review - ISOC Chapters role and future

[Seun Ojedeji]

+2 to all that has been said. I guess this also raises the importance of
ensuring that the reviewer has some level of understanding of how the
subject operates including her historical background. The draft report
doesn't seem to exhibit such understanding and context.

That said, I think it will be good for comments shared here to reflect in
the public comment as well.

Regards
Sent from my LG G4
Kindly excuse brevity and typos

On Feb 5, 2017 11:50 AM, "Yrjö Länsipuro" <yrjo_lansipuro at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
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> I totally agree with Olivier. Doing away with ALS'es is like trying to
> renovate the house by detonating the foundation. Total disaster.
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> Best,
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> Yrjö
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> *From:* Chapter-delegates <chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org> on
> behalf of Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, February 5, 2017 2:37 AM
> *To:* Alejandro Pisanty; Richard Hill
> *Cc:* ISOC Chapter Delegates
> *Subject:* Re: [Chapter-delegates] New version of ICANN At-Large Review -
> ISOC Chapters role and future
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> On 04/02/2017 21:01, Alejandro Pisanty wrote:
> > Problems like capture by a few individuals will not be solved and in
> > fact most likely will be aggravated by the "enhanced membership model."
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> The Review carries anonymous quotes from people who dislike the fact
> that At-Large and the ALAC are standing in their way to turn ICANN into
> a domain name business association. Bringing the input of Internet end
> users to ICANN's technically and legally super-complex processes is a
> very hard task indeed. I know - I chaired that process for 4 years and
> to say that it was challenging is an understatement. But the current
> structure of At-Large which has several tiers for hierarchy of "control"
> but an entirely open bottom-up model where everybody is allowed to
> attend any meeting or call and to participate and to voice their
> opinion, actually provides for a stable environment with stable
> processes which can actually help in reaching consensus and getting the
> ALAC to act. That is exactly the thing that bothers other parts of
> ICANN: that the ALAC is slowly but surely, over time, surmounting the
> largest hurdle to a multi-stakeholder system which is to get the input
> of the real end users out there - and that it is doing so with renewed
> harmony and proven bottom-up processes.
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> Instead, as Alejandro mentions, the Review asks for a return to an
> unstable, free for all, system based only on individual members speaking
> for themselves only, a system that was shown to fail miserably as it
> generates conflict with no safeguards whatsoever and favours those with
> a bigger mouth than anyone else. The ICANN version 1 experiment failed
> noticeably in the early 2000s, with ballot stuffing in wide practice and
> mailing lists that were filled with flame wars fuelled by socio-paths. I
> remember that so well: having been subscribed to the early DNSO (Domain
> Name Support Association) mailing list, I quickly got sick of the daily
> dose of venom from psychos that should have been interned, un-subscribed
> myself and, after the failed At-Large elections which I predicted were
> going to fail, removed myself completely from having anything to do with
> ICANN until it had a meeting in Paris in 2008.
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> The Review is deeply flawed in that it is not an analysis of At-Large
> and the ALAC. On the contrary, it is a collection of opinions, many of
> them deeply flawed or factually wrong, and recommendations derived from
> these flawed opinions. Good opinions of At-Large were ditched and only
> criticism was kept, whether warranted or unwarranted. It is a lynching
> of reality and I give it as much truth as the flawed populist campaigns
> the world has recently seen, thus predicting an equally gruesome future
> for At-Large.
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> By following the mantra "Let's make At-Large great again", the reviewers
> are actually proposing to kill it.
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> Kindest regards,
>
> Olivier
> (own opinions)
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