.net evaluation

[Alan Levin <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Considering in the second paragraph of the statement about "What is 
ICANN?" - as stated on their public website for many years - that, "As a 
private-public partnership, ICANN is dedicated to preserving the 
operational stability of the Internet; to promoting competition; to 
achieving broad representation of global Internet communities; and to 
developing policy appropriate to its mission through bottom-up, 
consensus-based processes."

We consider that the criteria given to Telcordia did not allow them to 
establish a balance between the issues mentioned here. It appears that 
from the outcome of the decision of the evaluators, the area of 
"operational stability of the Internet" has been overused and 
overweighted against the other areas of deidication: "promoting 
competition; to achieving broad representation of global Internet 
communities; and to developing policy appropriate to its mission through 
bottom-up, consensus-based processes".

We believe that the board should demonstrate its own words on the webste 
and as stated, and since we are aware that the "operational stability of 
the Internet" will not be significantly impacted by a change in the 
incumbant operator and that as such they should NOT support the decision 
of the evaluators to constrain competition and the continuation of 
narrow representation of Internet communities in the two largest tld's 
on the Internet.