Unfortunately, it seems that it is going to be a sort of trade show. It's
been organized by the ICC and the INTA, hasn't it, rather than the DNSO? And
in a place and on dates set by the e-commerce section of the ITAA?
> I am - I hope - helping to set the agenda
I'm sorry to disillusion you, Esther, but the agenda has been set by the
ITAA. Not by ICANN, and not by the DNSO.
> and encouraging all of you to come
> together into a compromise,
How can a compromise between all parties be reached, when all parties are
not being allowed to sit at the negotiating table? Are you aware that a
closed meeting, from which representatives of Internet users and other
sectors of the Internet have been excluded, is taking place on Thursday, and
that the ITAA has already lied about the nature of that closed meeting,
first saying that it was only procedural and then sending a message to the
DNSO saying "We recognize that new or modified material may be generated on
Thursday"? And that the organizers of the two meetings have hired a
"professional facilitator" (whatever that may mean) whose identity is
unknown to the Internet community, which has not been consulted in his or
her selection?
> not trying to railroad a "winning proposal"
> through.
Perhaps not. But by giving the opening speech you seem to be condoning the
proceedings, which by Friday morning will already have been defined as
unfair and exclusionary. After you speak, a proposal is going to be
presented that has not been arrived at by any kind of consensus or public
process, and which is the work of people who are not members of the Internet
community. That proposal will specifically exclude individuals from
membership in the DNSO, and say that the DNSO Names Council members who sit
on the Board of ICANN must be people from the business community. Are you
content to lend your name and presence to this rubbish? If the end-users of
the Internet held a meeting at which we proposed to exclude all business
people, trademark lawyers, and registries and registrars from the DNSO,
something that we never have nor ever will propose, would you come and give
the opening speech at such a meeting?
Your intentions may be good, but it is clear that you are being used by the
ITAA, ICC, and INTA to legitimize what might very well otherwise be
considered illegitimate by everyone except them.