It is interesting, is it not, that the messages I forwarded to the list
never appeared there.
I will repost.
Gene Marsh
At 09:56 PM 7/19/99 -0400, you wrote:
>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.
>
>
>
>
>
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Gene Marsh
president, anycastNET Incorporated
330-699-8106
