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IP: more on new architect - ICANN of worms
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 07:33:53 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com> Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 19:47:56 -0700 To: farber () cis upenn edu Cc: lauren () pfir org Subject: Re: IP: new architect - ICANN of worms Dave, You asked, "When will ICANN stop shooting themselves in the foot?" The *tenor* of ICANN's responses and statements, rather than their detailed content, has become increasingly revealing of why ICANN is now a significant part of Internet problems, rather than facilitating solutions to those problems. As you, I, and others have discovered, attempts to submit polite and thoughtful suggestions, criticism, or analysis of ICANN issues usually result either in being totally ignored by ICANN, or in responses from affiliated ICANN parties that appear to belittle, marginalize, and/or mischaracterize such submissions. ICANN seems to have developed a "siege" mentality, circling the wagons against critics, and firing outward in a scattershot fashion at anyone who would dare to question its constantly morphing master plan. Emotion and self-concern, not logic or public good, appear to increasingly represent ICANN's modus operandi. Once an organization's interactions with the community that it ostensibly serves have deteriorated to this level, it seems problematic in the extreme to assume that a continuing useful role for that organization is possible, the best intentions of its principals notwithstanding. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein lauren () pfir org or lauren () vortex com or lauren () privacyforum org Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org Co-Founder, Fact Squad - http://www.factsquad.org Co-Founder, URIICA - Union for Representative International Internet Cooperation and Analysis - http://www.uriica.org Moderator, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy ------ End of Forwarded Message For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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