IP: Re: Richard Forno on ICANN and Net-stability against terrorists

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> ate: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:45:56 -0700
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> From: Dave Crocker <dhc2 () dcrocker net>
>
>
> At 09:57 AM 9/29/2001, David Farber wrote:
> > > From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
> > > [ICANN representatives are welcome to reply, of course. --DBM]
> > And to me also djf
> >
> > From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
> > > ICANN is using the events of 09-11 as yet another excuse to slow their
> > > already glacial (and some would say corrupt) pace of operations while their
>
>
> Dave,
>
> I doubt that an ICANN representative will respond. Please re-read 
> Richard's note.  The problem with your invitation is that there is nothing 
> substantive for them to respond to. The only content in Richard's note is 
> a series of generic slanders on people and processes.
>
> In fact it is most striking that anyone from NSI would believe that they 
> occupy a position of authority, concerning service issues, given their 
> overall poor performance on transactions, customer service and, of course, 
> DNS and Whois database corruption. (That is a corruption that they have 
> demonstrated to be far more real than the personal slander that Richard 
> tosses about freely and without substantiation.) In fact it was remarkably 
> apt of Richard to use the term "ringside" given that NSI's performance has 
> so often been a circus.
>
> And the difficulty with his (and my) exchaning these clever volleys is 
> that they ignore the serious nature of ICANN's mandate.
>
> The real problem is not that it required September 11 to cause ICANN to 
> make operations issues its first priority.
>
> It is that silliness like Richard's attacks have prevented these issues 
> from getting attention sooner.
>
> And various people's erroneous comments that keep inventing wording of the 
> ICANN announcement do not help. (Please review the ICANN announcement and 
> tell us where it says "all" other items will be pushed off the agenda; it 
> says anything other than "some might" be delayed.  This is not semantic 
> nit-picking.  It is noting that people are distorting a very basic point 
> in the wording of the ICANN announcement.)
>
> Really, it is time to stop treating ICANN as a sandbox for rigid, 
> idealistic social and political agendas, and remember that it has a narrow 
> focus, and that is to oversee and pursue some essential infrastructure 
> administration and operations.
>
> Part of the reason it has performed so badly as a vehicle for grandiose 
> goals is that those goals have nothing to do with its job.
>
> d/
>
>
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