You want substance?
I give you only one case: The case of Afilias.
There are many points one could raise against Afilias, I only give you one:
They were required by contract with ICANN to spend a reasonable sum to
promote .info TLD, but they failed to. ICANN reaction: none
Is there some dealing behind the scenes?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ross Wm. Rader" <ross@tucows.com>
To: "Joe Baptista" <baptista@dot-god.com>
Cc: "adam beecher" <lists@spamfilter.cc>; <discuss-list@opensrs.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 5:58 AM
Subject: Re: [TLDA-Members] Fwd: BulkRegister partners with New.Net
> 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
> >
> > Joe Baptista - only at www.baptista.god
> >
> > Pysmatic Network - The start of a unique Internet experience!
> > http://pysmatic.ppp/
> >
> >
> >
>
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