Bret and all,
Bret A. Fausett wrote:
> >How and when will I be allowed to have a say in ICANN?
>
> The simple answer is that you can have a say now.
This is not exactly true. (See more as to why below)
>
>
> ICANN provides a comments page for many of the issues under
> consideration. You can find those at various places on the ICANN web site
> (http://www.icann.org). You also can provide general comments at
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Review for yourself, there has not been a comment added to the
archives of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list depository archives
sense June 18th. See:
http://www.icann.org/comments-mail/icann-current/maillist.html
yourself. Yet I know that I personally have posted more than 6 in
the past two days. The last comment posted was:
http://www.icann.org/comments-mail/icann-current/msg00163.html
Hence it is not likely that anyone's comments/questions "Say" as
has been requested by this new IFWP member ask, will ever be
known or for that matter read by anyone at the ICANN.. Further
as was reported by Diane Cabel shortly after the ICANN conference in
Berlin, Esther Dyson said that she rarely reads the comments...
>
>
> You could also choose to participate, either in person or remotely, in
> the ICANN public hearings that precede the closed ICANN Board meetings.
> The Board takes comments both from a public microphone and by e-mail.
> Watch the ICANN site for information about remote participation.
>
> For participation in the DNSO, you can choose to participate in a
> constituency, though as you note, only some are officially recognized at
> present. You could also choose to participate in the DNSO's General
> Assembly, a forum that is open to everyone in the community who wishes to
> work on the issues of the DNSO. In person General Assembly meetings are
> coordinated with ICANN's Board meetings (the schedule is on the ICANN web
> site), though I hope that the General Assembly soon will become a real
> online community.
>
> You can choose to participate in the DNSO's own online community (unclear
> whether this is the "General Assembly" list or not) by subscribing to the
> lists at http://www.dnso.org/dnso/listsdnso.html. General comments to
> the Names Council can be submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Again this is not exactly accurate information either for similar reasons
I outlined briefly with respect to the ICANN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailing list depository.
For instance if you review,
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/dnsocomments/comments/Archives/maillist.html
you will see that the last comment in the archives for the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] list was made on June 10th. This is highly
inaccurate as well as I know that I have sent comments to that list
depository on several occasion in just the past week more than four times.
>
>
> Some ICANN Board members and ICANN staff also have shown that they read
> this list.
Again we know from the Berlin conference comments made by Esther Dyson
that this statement is not exactly accurate.
>
>
> By the end of the year, there should be a General Membership of ICANN
> that may also be a forum for participation.
>
> As you've probably noted, there is some disagreement about whether the
> avenues I've described allow for _meaningful_ participation, but I
> assumed that you were looking for the information above. I hope this is
> helpful.
>
> -- Bret
Regards,
--
Jeffrey A. Williams
CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng.
Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
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