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[Carlos A. Afonso]

OK, McTim, let us compare, if you will.

ICANN is a non-profit which is more than 80% funded by a gTLD vendor
which directly influences ICANN's gTLD policies -- in practice a
brokerage house of the big gTLD business. Most of the complexity of the
current ICANN derives from being the central place where the different
commercial interests of registries, registrars and other commercial
interests try to leverage gTLD governance to suit each one's commercial
aims. Efforts by non-commercial sectors to participate and acquire more
leverage in the decision-making process are frequently thwarted or
outrightly sabotaged by mechanisms embedded in the ICANN structure
(including a frequently pro-business atitude of staff itself).

CGI.br is a not a non-profit organization -- it is a pluralist
commission created with the mandate of governing .br names and
allocation of IP numbers within Brazil. CGI.br oversees the
implementation of its policies through a non-profit organization
(NIC.br) which guarantees that names and numbers are distributed as a
non-profit operation, establishing the .br names as the identity of
Brazil on the Internet and an asset of the commons. NIC.br manages two
million .br domains, IP distribution, and several research and support
projects (such as CERT.br, the IXP network, the research center CETIC.br
among others), and runs its own entire technical facilities, as well as
being the operations center of LACNIC -- all this with less than 20% of
the ICANN budget, and is completely self-sufficient, not depending on
any commercial business to survive.

There are CSs and there are CSs...

--c.a.

McTim wrote:
> Hi Carlos,
> 
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Carlos A. Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:
>> McTim, I undertand your computer programmer approach to recognizing CSs,
>> but please at least do a small additional step, recognizing there are
>> major differences (in representation, in actual mission and practices,
>> in allegiance to certain interests etc) among entities which are
>> formally registered as non-profits.
> 
> Is CGI.br a CS org?  Are you not also part of the Internet technical
> community as well?  Do the I*s not all work for the public benefit in
> that they are all working to keep the Internet free, open and IG
> policy making bottom up, etc?
> 
> I know many on this list have had some unpleasant experiences with
> ICANN/ISOC, etc and have lost some faith along the way, but that
> doesn't mean they are not CS, at least, not according to the LSE, et.
> al.
> 

-- 

Carlos A. Afonso
CGI.br (www.cgi.br)
Nupef (www.nupef.org.br)
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