At-Large Resolution for the WSIS

[Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>]

Having read Karl Auerbach's "ICANN and Its Fairy Tale", I have taken the 
liberty of re-drafting his eloquent comments as a Resolution to be submitted 
through the WSIS process:

We recognize ICANN as an industrial cartel in a mutual assistance pact with the 
intellectual property industry that has as its goal the management of the 
domain name industry by defining the products offered by that industry, setting 
prices of those products, and selecting who may and who may not participate in 
that industry.

We do not recognize ICANN as responsible for ensuring the stable and secure 
operation of the Internet?s unique identifier systems as ICANN does nothing 
about IP addresses, as ICANN engages in no DNS technical matters, as ICANN does 
nothing about DNS security and as ICANN has no role in service standards or 
over DNS root operations which are operated by an entirely independent group 
over which ICANN has no authority. IANA, not ICANN, records internet protocol 
numbers, and the IETF instructs IANA what to write.

We believe that ICANN's abandonment of its role of technical oversight and its 
assumption of the role of business regulator has weakened the internet and made 
the internet more vulnerable to failure and attack.

We therefore resolve to recognize the comment of the U.S. Department of 
Commerce that ?if ICANN does not make significant progress on the transition 
tasks, alternatives will be identified and considered?, and we call upon all 
parties to initiate such a search for alternatives.


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