Re: [ga] Re: Violations of the Bylaws?

[DannyYounger@cs.com]

Dear Vint,

One of the responsibilities of the Board is to "recognize consensus".  

1.  3453 petitioners endorsed an Anti-WLS petition posted at 
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?antiwls
2.  A review of the comments posted to the Public Forums shows an 
overwhelming objection to the proposed WLS
3.  Members of the General Assembly were similarly overwhelmingly in 
opposition to the WLS
4.  Every single constituency with the exception of the gTLDs came out in 
opposition to the WLS
5.  The DNSO voted to reject Verisign's request to amend its agreement to 
enable it to introduce its proposed WLS
6.  The DNSO also voted to reject Verisign's request to trial the WLS for 12 
months

and yet the Board has resolved to launch the WLS.

In your testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, 
Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet on 8 February 2001 you 
stated, "ICANN is a consensus development body, not a regulatory agency.  Its 
decisions are intended to reflect consensus in the Internet community, not 
simply the policy preferences of those who happen to sit on its Board at any 
given moment." 

As I am sure that you did not willfully lie to the US Government, I can only 
assume that the Board's decision on WLS must reflect a consensus in the 
Internet community that I have somehow failed to notice.  Otherwise one might 
conclude that you have chosen to act in defiance of the community will at a 
time when the Department of Commerce has been looking for assurances that the 
views of all Internet stakeholders are being heard.  

Perhaps you would be good enough to demonstrate the presence of such 
community consensus so that we don't arrive at the conclusion that your 
collective actions represent simply the policy preferences of those who now 
sit on the Board... Unless of course, the Board is now of the view that it 
has no obligation to honor, respect, or abide by the consensus of the 
community.


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