Re: [alac] Fwd: [council] Response from ICANN Board chair with regard to the proposed .biz, .info and .org agreements
This is vintage Vint. Here's the chronology.... (a) The GNSO is so shocked and repulsed by the ICANN Staff's approval of the .COM contract that it initiates a policy development process in February, 2006 (PDP-Feb06) to formulate policy on things it thought it could take for granted -- price caps, rebids on renewal. (b) Seeing the coming train, the registries for INFO, BIZ and ORG decide that they need to get in and renegotiate their contracts before the PDP comes down. ICANN Staff, obligingly, provides them the same treatment, which is contrary to the coming policy advice from the GNSO. (c) One of the contracts, that for .ORG, was just awarded a couple of years ago and doesn't expire until years down the road, and yet, we now have an emergency renegotiation and term extension, before we've even seen PIR carry out a substantial period of its initial award term. (d) Against a GNSO resolution that ICANN wait until the GNSO PDP concludes -- and we've been working overtime to get it done ASAP -- Vint now tells us that he is not constrained by our request to wait. (e) To add insult to the substantial injury ICANN will do to registrants via these contracts, Vint now writes that the Board can disregard GNSO advice, even on matters directly within the umbra of the GNSO's authority, because it is simply one input into the Board. What makes it Vintage Vint is that, as ever, Vint knows best. He is the father of the Internet and his paternalism knows no bounds. We ought to simply dispense with the advisory committees and supporting organizations because, at the end of the day, Vint will simply do what he knows is the best thing. Bret P.S. To make matters worse, ICANN Staff has purposefully impeded the GNSO's work in recent days in an effort to say that we're not on track for Sao Paulo. In concert, the registries have filibustered our conference calls in an attempt to delay our work.
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