[governance] [govenance] The domain name racket goes on

[parminder]

What has become of ICANN is best represented in the email of resignation 
(http://mailman.apnic.net/mailing-lists/sig-policy/archive/2014/09/msg00049.html 
) from the chair of one of  APNIC's policy groups which is linked below. 
What has been said of APNIC is just many more times truer of ICANN.... 
It is just that ICANN supported and fed groups are simply not willing 
enough to speak about the emperor's clothes. But the charade cannot go 
on forever, and once it is behind us many involved people will look 
really bad.

parminder


On Friday 19 September 2014 06:33 PM, McTim wrote:
> I didn't have to sign anything that said anything about what I could
> or couldn't say at the meeting.
>
> I went as part of NCSG.
>
> You can Google "ICANN travel policy" for details.
>
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Norbert Klein <nhklein at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Thanks - can you please elaborate on "no-strings attached travel funding to
>> participate in person" - and I would welcome to see whether or not this is a
>> general experience, for example for GNSO council members, chairs of official
>> ICANN working groups, and others of the "many thousands of people around the
>> world as the policy making community."
>>
>> Norbert Klein
>> Cambodia
>>
>>
>> On 9/18/2014 8:48 PM, McTim wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 8:32 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net
>>> <mailto:parminder at itforchange.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>      The simple tasks that is the mandate of the ICANN to perform can
>>>      be done at maybe 5 percent of ICANN's budget or at least revenue.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Mandate or IANA function?  If the latter, you are correct.
>>>
>>>      ICANN is just highly puffed up for basically serving US's
>>>      geopolitical interests
>>>
>>> ICANN is "puffed up" because it costs a lot of money to put on meetings 3x
>>> per year in far flung locations around the world.
>>>
>>> Without the need to develop policy using many thousands of people around
>>> the world as the policy making community, they could do their job using far
>>> fewer resources.
>>>
>>> This spending is a feature, not a bug.  It is a very useful feature for CS
>>> folks who rely on the no-strings attached travel funding to participate in
>>> person.
>>>
>>> --
>>> McTim
>>> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route
>>> indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
>>
>>
>>
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