IP: more on new architect - ICANN of worms

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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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


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