Re: [ALSC-Forum] Misstatements concerning IFWP

[Karl Auerbach]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Mike Roberts wrote:

> There are misstatements of historical fact concerning IFWP ...

Yes.  And your missive adds to that list of misstatements.

Rather than enumerating them, which would take a very long message indeed,
let me merely point people to the work of the Boston Working group, a
group that was formed by those of us who held non-refundable airplane
tickets to Boston after the IFWP's self-appointed and self-named "steering
committee" steered the IFWP, whether by intention or ineptitude, straight
into the ground.

We went, we met, and we worked.  In a 36 hour marathon session we created
our proposal.  It is still on the net:

	http://www.cavebear.com/bwg/


Coming back to the present day and the need for ICANN to have a meaningful
at-large:

It is extremely sad that even now, three years after the fact, ICANN is
still trying to wiggle out of a meaningful form of public participation.

We see that wiggling in the form of the very watery, weak, inadequate, and
incomplete proposal from the ALSC committee.

And we see that wiggling in your attempt to create a revisionist history
of the IFWP and ICANN in which there was no desire, much less a
committment, to public participation right from the outset.

Suppose we accept your history that ICANN and its founders rejected open,
transparent, and accountable principles?  Does that mean that we ought to
accept that as dogma and blindly continue down that path as some sort of
act of faith?

Or does it mean that the founders made a mistake that ought to be
corrected?

		--karl--