FANCY
In Esther Dyson's reply to Dept of Commerce's Becky Burr
today, and copied to Commerce Committee Bliley, she used
the term "Internet Community" 10 times to justify various
actions and assertions. Examples include:
"...was adopted following a thorough process of
notice and comment, and was broadly supported
by a consensus of the community."
"seemed to the Internet community a fair and
workable way"
"recognizing community consensus"
"ICANN is nothing more than the reflection
of community consensus"
Indeed, the term figures prominently into most recent
communications emerging from spokespersons for ICANN
and the Dept of Commerce.
FACT
As it turns out, ICANN actually has an official
"Community Feedback" site that contains an archive of
all the "reflections of community consensus." It's the
only site, and it's at http://www.icann.org/feedback.html
If you go to this site and analyze all the available
feedback, you obtain the following ICANN community feedback
statistics:
1. Over the past 8 months, a total of 547 email note
comments have been filed as follows:
Nov-98 20
Dec-98 10
Jan-99 25
Feb-99 30
Mar-99 47
Apr-99 105
May-99 94
Jun-99 128
Jul-99 88 (to date)
2. Two-thirds of the community feedback messages were 3-5 kB -
about 10-30 lines of message text. Only 7 were over 20 kB.
3. One person is responsible for 20 % of the comments.
Only 17 people have filed more than two comments.
as follows:
Michael Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 110
Michael Sondow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 70
jeff Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 24
Karl Auerbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 9
John B. Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Bennett) 7
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ellen Rony) 6
Eric Weisberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 6
John D. Goodspeed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5
Baumgärtner Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>4
Russ Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 4
Jim R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 4
Ed Gerck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3
Darren Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 3
Joseph Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3
Richard J. Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3
4. 463 of the email notes (85%) were on unique disparate
subjects. Among the notes in which there were more than
three on the same subject, they were largely the notes of
the single dominant commentor:
Re: more netsol fun (fwd) 11
Re: Contact handles disappearing mysteriously from the whois database!
(fwd) 8
Re: more Internic nightmare (fwd) 7
Network Solutions 6
RE: [IFWP] Re: The Sims-Auerbach Correspondence 5
Re: [IFWP] Slanders and impostures 4
Re: NSI problems anyone? (fwd) 4
domain names 4
RE: [IFWP] The Sims-Auerbach Correspondence (was: The CPT- ICANN
Correspondence 3
Re: Network Solutions loses domain data (fwd) 3
ICC Message to the Board of Directors of ICANN 3
Re: More whois fun. (fwd) 3
Re: Clue? (fwd) 3
Re: whois changes (fwd) 3
domain name registration 3
Re: NetSol on crack? (fwd) 3
5. Analysis. ICANN's own "community feedback" files of record
reveal clearly there is no "community consensus." Indeed, it is
preponderantly a chaotic randomness of topics and people combined
with one outspoken critic, and almost none of the material is
more than a few paragraphs long.
