This is exactly what I was talking about Joe. A whack of unsupported
criticisms that don't have a strong basis in reality. ICANN makes for a
great target, but you should at least try and sling arrows of substance...
-rwr
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Baptista" <baptista@dot-god.com>
To: "Ross Wm. Rader" <ross@tucows.com>
Cc: "adam beecher" <lists@spamfilter.cc>; <discuss-list@opensrs.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: [TLDA-Members] Fwd: BulkRegister partners with New.Net
>
> On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Ross Wm. Rader wrote:
>
> > > Words can't express how angry that statement makes me feel Elliot.
It's an
> > > insult to the intelligence of your customers.
> >
> > Adam,
> >
> > Can you clarify this a bit? I spent a lot of time dealing with ICANN
matters
> > and therefore soaking up a lot of the criticism that goes its way. I
would
> > personally agree that a good portion of the criticism is warranted to
> > differing degrees, but certainly not the majority and certainly not all
the
> > time. A lot of it comes from those with an axe to grind and even that
which
> > comes from supposedly unbiased sources is just plain wrong. I'd have to
side
> > with Elliot on this one and really don't understand what it is that
raised
> > your ire to the degree that your words convey...
>
> Maybe the fact that icann claims to be open and transparent but in fact is
> closed and insular. Everyone knows icanns claims to open and transparent
> are just a marketing jingo which has gotten very stale.
>
> In fact it no longer matter is critisims are warranted or not. Icanns
> reputation is so tarnished they have effectly branded themselves as
> something no one wants. Even if they were to do a 180 degree makeover it
> would not help. They damed themselves by showing us a level of hypocracy
> one only expects from governments and politicians - both dirty words to
> many.
>
> Remember the root system is established based on trust, consensus and
> cooperations. This however is a language foreign to icann.
>
> regards
> joe
>
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