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

[Javier Rua]

At this point there is little that can be done in order to get a Yes vote from me in this Review Process. Sorry.

Javier Rúa-Jovet

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> On Feb 5, 2017, at 6:50 AM, Yrjö Länsipuro <yrjo_lansipuro at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> 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."
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> By following the mantra "Let's make At-Large great again", the reviewers
> are actually proposing to kill it.
> 
> Kindest regards,
> 
> Olivier
> (own opinions)
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