[governance] ICANN stumbling on a hornet nest

[Riaz K Tayob]

The facts certainly do bear out such an interpretation.

On the other hand, these facts may speak to the point that, there may be 
huge barriers to entry ranging from:

1. "Stakeholders" may not know they do not know (about how to influence 
the system - a huge comparative advantage to the US who has specialists 
linked to the praxis).
2. Cost and familiarity with processes, players and importantly 
prospects of success.
3. Perversity, jeopardy and futility of engagement - linked to prospects 
of success on initiating a "claim"/policy cahnge/intervention.
4. Lack of legitimacy renders every rejected proposal/complaint (yes 
this sounds extreme I know) dubious, notwithstanding the exceptions of 
complaints heard.
5. How decisions are made contextualised in its institutional context 
matters. Corn cannot expect justice from a court of chickens (African 
proverb) or in South Africa. Or analogously as some poet critics said 
about White art in South Africa, we see the bit, the stirrup, the lead 
and the saddle, but where is the horse (paraphrased...)

Perhaps it is not just Parminder, although he seems singled out more 
than others, for posing conjecture/opinion (however well justified and 
reflecting kaleidescopic reality) as fact.

Riaz

On 2012/09/02 09:27 AM, Roland Perry wrote:
> In message 
> <CA+EjHYq9hzKi5YTgHxBkr0a-cMosEQfK-HQgsYANJHHR0gnXOQ at mail.gmail.com>, 
> at 19:40:14 on Sat, 1 Sep 2012, "Louis Pouzin (well)" 
> <pouzin at well.com> writes
>> Today, more than 6600 complaints for 1931 gTLD applications
>
> Actually, an average of less than four complaints per application 
> seems extraordinarily low to me.
>
> If you regard the comments as an online petition, then typically you'd 
> expect it to require a few tens of thousands of people with a common 
> view (about each complained-of application) to be persuasive, after 
> all there's a worldwide audience for this process.
>
> What's different about the ICANN system is that a lone voice can make 
> a complaint which will be heard.


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