[governance] ICANN Net Address Endings to Face Government Objections

[Riaz K Tayob]

Ahh, but it suffices not to finish there

there is the issue of legitimacy, not merely effectiveness...
On 2012/11/21 10:37 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Any stakeholder group is characterized by participation and non
> participation .. which groups participate, which groups are entirely
> unaware of it, which groups prefer to stay away and criticize it from
> outside ..
>
> Riaz K Tayob [21/11/12 09:50 +0200]:
>>
>> perhaps this raises the paradox of participation... which can equally 
>> be a case for NON-participation in GAC than participation...
>>
>> If at first you don't succeed... try, and try again seems to be the 
>> mantra
>>
>> perish the thought that ICANN is not as even handed as its fan club 
>> would like to think...????
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2012/11/21 09:17 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>>> ICANN has a new CEO and a lot more determination to listen to all
>>> stakeholders since then
>>>
>>> Let us keep an open mind for now?
>>>
>>> Fahd A. Batayneh [21/11/12 07:50 +0200]:
>>>> I would never disagree, but let us go back into history and 
>>>> specifically to
>>>> the ICANN San Francisco meeting when .xxx was approved against the 
>>>> advise
>>>> of the GAC. While the GAC made a
>>>> statement<http://news.dot-nxt.com/2011/03/17/gac-statement-dot-xxx>part 
>>>>
>>>> of which was "THERE IS NO ACTIVE SUPPORT OF THE GAC FOR THE
>>>> INTRODUCTION OF THE DOT XXX TOP-LEVEL DOMAIN", the board never 
>>>> listened. It
>>>> was circulated that the board approved .xxx against the advise of 
>>>> the GAC
>>>> to push the New gTLD program forward.
>>>>
>>>> Statistics state that 4 of the industry's biggest players have a 
>>>> say - in
>>>> total - more than 80% of the New gTLD applications. If the GAC 
>>>> opposes to
>>>> several applications for each, will they agree and give those 
>>>> applications
>>>> easily? After all, they are the same players who invest heavily in 
>>>> setting
>>>> up posh booths at ICANN meetings.
>>>>
>>>> So who will prevail, GAC advise or the big guns?
>>>>
>>>> In general, this is where ICANN has been failing; i.e. working in 
>>>> the best
>>>> public interest. While some saw .xxx as yet another TLD, many 
>>>> rejected it
>>>> for various reasons.
>>>>
>>>> Fahd
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
>>>> <suresh at hserus.net>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Sorry?  GAC is part and parcel of the icann process.
>>>>>
>>>>> --srs (iPad)
>>>>>
>>>>> On 21-Nov-2012, at 1:19, "Fahd A. Batayneh" <fahd.batayneh at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20407906
>>>>>
>>>>> Kurt Pritz's resignations last week, and now this is sending the 
>>>>> New gTLD
>>>>> program to unknown destinations. I wonder if common sense or 
>>>>> lobbying by
>>>>> the big guns will prevail in the end.
>>>>>
>>>>> Fahd
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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