Subject: Question 10
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Date: 2010-07-01 07:59:56 GMT
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Summary: 10. What is your assessment of the extent to which ICANN's decisions are embraced, supported and accepted by the public and the Internet community? Can you identify a specific example(s) when ICANN decisions were not embraced, supported and accepted by the public and the Internet community? If so, please provide specific information as to the circu...
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10. What is your assessment of the extent to which ICANN's decisions are embraced, supported and accepted by the public and the Internet community? Can you identify a specific example(s) when ICANN decisions were not embraced, supported and accepted by the public and the Internet community? If so, please provide specific information as to the circumstances and indicate why you believe ICANN's actions were taken without adequate support and acceptance by the public and the Internet community.Replace this text with your own.
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from Avri
I believe the recent ICANN staff decision to reserve Geographical names in way contrary to the policy recommendation of the GNSO that had been approved by the Board is one such instance where the decision was neither embraced, supported or accepted.
contributed by avri@acm.org on 2010-06-14 17:49:45 GMT
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It is not just a case of ICANN's decisions not being embraced or supported or accepted. Due to its glacial pace of developments, it is a case of ICANN's non-decisions that is not supported or acceptable by the public, and the "public" here most certainly does not and should not mean just the American public, notwithstanding the fact that ICANN is an american company registered in California. What is ICANN's lack of initiative on IPv6 deployment? or of IDN TLDs? It is unacceptable. So what is the ICANN's vision going forward? We have yet to see a strategic plan going forward that makes credible sense, nor a visionary outlook that inspires confidence. All we have are ICANN's plight as a pawn of political maneuvers at best, and staffers and leaders climbing a steep learning curve on how to run a proper global organisation. When can we see some hope for the future, remains unanswered and possibly unanswerable.
contributed by guest@socialtext.net on 2010-07-01 07:59:56 GMT
