[governance] Emergency resolution on.xxx recall-and thedestruction of ICANN's integrity

[Milton Mueller]

Carlos:

>>> Carlos Afonso <ca at rits.org.br> 08/16/05 7:57 PM >>>
>I am not sure we need to know all the dirty details of American 
>politics 

You do need to know the details of ICANN and WGIG politics.
What you need to know is this: 

 * At Luxembourg, neither the GAC nor the US made a request to stop the
delegation. That was before a new Commerce Dept official was appointed
 * All the outraged letters from Christian conservatives (and
pornographers posing as such) came into the Commerce Dept. weeks before
the Luxembourg meeting
 * The US Commerce Dept letter to ICANN is dated August 11, about two
weeks after Sampson was appointed.  
 * The GAC Chairman's letter to ICANN is dated August 13, and obviously
follows the US initiative.
 * The US letter was buried in the "Correspondence section of ICANN's
web site.
 * The GAC letter was put on the front page, providing a nice cover for
the US initiative.

These are the "dirty details" of ICANN politics. Do you think they are
relevant? I do. The record indicates clearly that the recall of .xxx is
driven entirely by US decisions and that the USG, GAC chair and ICANN
mgmt colluded. You have no objection to that? 

If Brazil thinks that this kind of abuse of process and unilateralism
is a good thing because it censors a commercial porn domain that they
don't like, then it shows that they have no principles and don't
understand how fair, accountable global institutions are built. Sorry to
be that blunt, but it's true. You've lost sight of the forest for the
tree (xxx). 

If on the other hand Brazilians have a larger, more public-spirited
agenda and want to see Internet governance reformed in a way that
permits the world to interact fairly and predictably, they will be
outraged by this decision. 

--MM

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