[governance] Framework convention

Alejandro Pisanty apisan at servidor.unam.mx
Sat Apr 21 21:40:05 EDT 2007


Karl,

your posting reaches a level of offense, bias, and falsehood, and is based 
on so thin a basis of qualifications of yours to emit it, that 
civil response becomes an exercise in restraint. Allow me to exert it.


Alejandro Pisanty


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On Sat, 21 Apr 2007, Karl Auerbach wrote:

> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:13:55 -0700
> From: Karl Auerbach <karl at cavebear.com>
> Reply-To: governance at lists.cpsr.org, Karl Auerbach <karl at cavebear.com>
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org, Alejandro Pisanty <apisan at servidor.unam.mx>
> Subject: Re: [governance] Framework convention
> 
> Alejandro Pisanty wrote:
>
>> the civil answer is that the storm of scandalous statements you have
>> subjected us to, including this last one, is in discord with fact.
>
> I agree that the word "scandalous" is appropriate.  But rather than being 
> applicable to my comments, it is more appropriate as a description of ICANN's 
> abandonment of the public interest and its unconcern that the upper tiers of 
> DNS efficiently, reliably, and accurately transforms DNS query packets into 
> DNS reponse packets without prejudice for or against any query source or 
> query subject.
>
> There is certainly nothing inaccurate about what I have written.
>
> ICANN has left internet users in the lurch and at risk of actual instability 
> and failure of DNS.
>
> ICANN has utterly abandoned its job to oversee that the root layer even 
> operates at all, much less operates adequately.  We of the internet community 
> have the current root server operators to thank for the stability we have 
> had; ICANN is merely a bystander that is willing to take the credit.
>
> The failure of ICANN to actually engage with the matters for which it was 
> formed - to protect the technical stability of the internet for the benefit 
> of internet users - should shame ICANN into action rather than into hand 
> waiving denials.
>
> The fact that ICANN has become a body that protects its industrial 
> "stakeholders" rather then the community of internet users is also not 
> dispelled by denials.
>
> This is why ICANN should be used as a lesson in failure rather than a model 
> for success.
>
>        --karl--
>
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