[governance] What ICANN Do

[Kieren McCarthy]

> If it is an answer it is an answer that ought to cause great concern and 
> raise the question whether ICANN is on a path of reckless and negligent 
> disregard for the reliable provision of DNS services to internet users.


I think I ought to make it clear that everything I say and write is the
living embodiment of ICANN the organisation.

Many mistakenly believe that ICANN is a company like any other - where
individuals bring their own particular skills, knowledge, ideas, backgrounds
and experiences to the job.

This could not be further from the truth. The first day you arrive, you are
taken to the Postel Room (oh, how he would be ashamed) where you are subject
to an intensive 36-hour brain-washing session during which all aspects of
independent thought are carefully removed and discarded. 

You are then surgically enhanced with a device designed by Vint Cerf himself
that links you to a next generation network (run by the ITU) where all your
thoughts, feelings and utterances are uploaded daily from Paul Twomey's
4,000-foot yacht in the Caribbean.

It's worse than you thought Karl. Far worse.



"Faced with insoluble nonsense, you have a choice: to laugh or to cry. I
myself always choose the former" - Oscar Wilde.




Kieren





-----Original Message-----
From: Karl Auerbach [mailto:karl at cavebear.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 11:05 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Subject: Re: [governance] What ICANN Do

Kieren McCarthy wrote:

> If we just holds hands and wish hard enough maybe it will stop.

I can not tell if that is that a flippant dismissal or a serious answer.

If it is a joke, it fails to amuse.

If it is an answer it is an answer that ought to cause great concern and 
raise the question whether ICANN is on a path of reckless and negligent 
disregard for the reliable provision of DNS services to internet users.

Are we to perceive that ICANN is to the internet as FEMA was to New Orleans?

There is no doubt that ICANN is leaving internet users - people and 
businesses - at risk of service discontinuities on the net.

Perhaps ICANNites feel that just because ICANN has already spent seven 
years of failure to meet its original promise that it need not do so now 
and that even discussion of that abandonment is to be belittled and 
dismissed?

The DNS may not wobble this week or even next year, but if it does are 
we going to be hearing ICANN sounding some stoned dude: "not my job, man"?

		--karl--
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