[governance] Letter to Rod Beckstrom

[Parminder]

Avri Doria wrote:
> Hi,
>
> and if the civil society orgs had the lobbying clout, wouldn't we use it?
> wouldn't it be malfeasance to one's members not to do anything legal 
> one could?
>
> and perhaps we do have the clout among some our participants,
> but we do not seem to organize lobbying efforts with the same zeal.
Maybe. But on another important count, we, as the South based civil 
society groups, loathe to work through a system where the interests and 
rights of one country are highly privileged over others (the 
sub-committee keeps speaking of US citizens, and expectedly so). We are 
not willing to be the 'rest of them' as we figure in this system... It 
is therefore of great and urgent importance that internationalization of 
supervision of ICANN is seen as *the* non-negotiable and urgent step in 
the IG arena. The reluctance and double-speak of many in what is seen as 
the global civil society in this arena is most disturbing to me, and as 
I am prone to say, completely unacceptable.

parminder
>
> perhaps we should
> - not that i know anything about what it takes to lobby US congress
> or anyone's legislature for that mater..
>
> a.
>
> On 18 Sep 2009, at 00:35, Milton L Mueller wrote:
>
>> So the trademark interests continue to go to the US Congress while 
>> bargaining in bad faith within ICANN.
>>
>> --MM
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Danny Younger [mailto:dannyyounger at yahoo.com]
>>> Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 1:55 PM
>>> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
>>> Subject: [governance] Letter to Rod Beckstrom
>>>
>>> http://domainnamewire.com/wp-content/ICANN-smith-coble.pdf
>>>
>>> ICANN's CEO has been asked to respond by 22 September to three sets of
>>> questions posed by the U.S. House Judiciary's subcommittee on Courts 
>>> and
>>> Competition Policy. The following day (23 Sept.) the Committee is 
>>> holding
>>> a hearing on the Expansion of Top Level Domains and its Effects on
>>> Competition; the Hearing will be webcast -- see
>>> http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/calendar.html
>>>
>>> Witness Lists have not yet been posted.
>>>
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