[ga] The ERC Scam

[DannyYounger@cs.com]

When the ERC released its first Status Report, we were told that a task force 
of representatives of the broad ICANN community would be established to 
recommend the details of the policy-development process.  In theory this 
sounded somewhat akin to the idea of bottom-up, yet as it turns out 
(according to today's NC teleconference) "a Driver from the Top-down" is 
quite clearly dictating the course of the recommendations that will be 
forthcoming.  

Bruce Tomkin noted:  "One of the things that I found interesting between the 
first call that we had and the second call that we had... in the first call 
we're already talking about membership in Task Forces and how we would try to 
widen the membership and allow different groups to participate in the Task 
Force process.  Then, in the second call, there was really a shift which 
seemed to be coming from the Top down, more-or-less saying that more of the 
work of the Task Forces should be done within the Names Council itself.  And 
then the issue was... well then, it doesn't matter about the membership of 
task forces... you could have a task force of one member if you like because 
the representation issues were dealt with at the Names Council itself." 

From Phil Sheppard we also learned that Joe Sims is now part of the ERC 
process and has offered his own "suggestions" to the group.

At a glance it appears that having chosen the most malleable folks they could 
find, the ERC is now proceeding to "guide" their efforts dictating everything 
from report format to proposed content.  This will then be passed off as 
recommendations from the community.   On a different front, the exact same 
process is being repeated within the ALOC.  Denise Michel is drafting her own 
document and has already arbitrarily rejected language endorsed by a number 
of At-Large committee members.  

We are looking at a well-orchestrated deception.

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