Elvis, if you promise to sing "Jail House Rock" to the ICANN board - I will propose
that ICANN's political masters act immediately to ensure that the apparent abuses
of statutory authority and responsibility - what do they call that - official
corruption - we have witnessed during the Afilias .info rollout are not repeated
- and that ICANN rather than being a registrar's club whose actions and lack of actions
of late indicate that its prime motives are the enrichment of its registrar members
whatever the cost to the Internet community, ICANN is instead made a true representative
body of the Internet community consisting of those registrars who receive the domain
name buying public's certificate of approval for ethical business practice, and an
equal number of the interested general public, and an equal number of the domain
name buying members of the Internet community.We have to look beyond the conclusion
of this sad Afilias .info affair so that there is never a repeat of the fiasco which
is apparently - judging by the silence from ICANN -ICANN sanctioned. Why should
we be surprised - they are effectively - one and the same.
Unless there are checks
and balances introduced by way of new members to the ICANN board, and new criteria
imposed for the selection of the Registrar members - like, only those registrars
who have demonstrated their ethical conduct over a period of say three years, and
have the support of the domain name buying Internet community may ever have a place
on the board, then who is to say at some time we won't have another Afilias 2.
singsing
Elvis