Re: Lack Of Credibility?

["andi payn" <payn@null.net>]

Jeff Williams wrote:
>   Just a quick note here.  It seems almost amazing that most of the
>objections that you have, Andi, are what I originaly objected to
>part by part when the gTLD-MoU was first posted (See archives).
>In addition I also find it amazing that now, that posting of
>mine is somehow forgotten.  It was an official posting or the
>opinions jointly of my company and all our affiliates.  That amounts
>to about 7,000 people and 382 seperate companies.  But I guess they
>don't count, huh?

Well, this isn't the first time I've posted essentially these same
objections, and I've seen plenty of other people posting the same ones.

What's interesting is that recently I've seen a few people within the MoU
structure acknowledge that, although they support the overall process, there
are things that they want changed--and for the most part their objections
are pretty close as well.

If we can indeed join PAB by signing the MoU with written objections (and
especially if doing so makes it not a valid contract), the best thing we can
all do for the process is to do so, then see if we can work within the
PAB--alongside the reformers who are already there--to try to fix as much as
possible. If we get a reform-minded majority in the PAB, there are only two
possible outcomes. Either iPOC/POC implements all or most of the reforms we
want, or they prove once and for all that they have no interest in listening
to the concerns of the Internet community, even as represented by their own
advisory board.