Dear Mr. Wilson-
According to your announcement (below), you have created an Address
Supporting Organization by means of a bilateral Memorandum of
Understanding between the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) and
ICANN, without any provision or place in it for ISPs, the users of
Internet addresses.
Why has this been done? Why have you ignored the very reasonable
proposal for inclusion of ISPs in the ASO, made by Barbara Dooley,
President of CIX? (See:
http://www.icann.org/comments-mail/comment-aso/msg00021.html) Don't
you realize that if you continue to regulate the allocation of IP
addresses without allowing the users of them to participate you are
asking for trouble?
The same thing was done vis-a-vis domain names. The end-users who
tried to participate in the DNSO were turned away, sometimes
violently, as in the June Names Council teleconference. We were
first invited to participate by the White Paper, and then, when we
did participate, we were excluded and insulted. Now you are
repeating this with ISPs.
Don't you realize, Mr. Wilson, that inviting ISPs and other IP
address users to join a mailing list, after they have been excluded
from direct participation in the regulation of what most concerns
them, is adding insult to injury? The ICANN board doesn't seem to
appreciate the virulent hatred against them that their insulting
rejection of domain name users has engendered. Are you going to now
add ISPs to the lengthening list of people and organizations who
have been spit at by ICANN and its supporting organizations? Do you
think that you can refuse to collaborate and insult people, and then
continue to work selfishly for your own ends indefinitely, without
suffering any of the consequences of what your actions?
icann-announce wrote:
>
> Reminder: ICANN ASO - Website and Discussion Lists
>
> This is an announcement to all parties with interests in management of
> Internet Address space and related resources.
>
> The Address Supporting Organisation of ICANN (the Internet Corporation for
> Assigned Names and Numbers) was established last year, and has assumed its
> responsibilities under the ICANN Bylaws for coordination of global policy
> development in relation to Internet Addresses and related resources. The
> nine-member Address Council has also been established, in accordance with
> the ASO MoU and ICANN Bylaws.
>
> Since its establishment, the ASO has established mailing lists and a website
> to ensure that its processes are open and transparent, and accessible to all
> parties with an interest in Internet resource management issues.
>
> Three ASO mailing lists are now available for public access to ASO
> information, and for input into the ASO process:
>
> aso-announce - for announcements and other information
> relating to the ASO (read only list)
> aso-policy - for open discussion on policy and other
> ASO matters (open subscription list)
> aso-comment - for comment and input of any kind (no
> subscription necessary)
>
> The ASO website is also now available, at http://www.aso.icann.org, and
> carries information relating to the ASO, Address Council, and policy matters
> which may be under consideration; as well as complete archives of the above
> mailing lists.
>
> At this time the Address Council is seeking participants in the ASO process,
> and encourages all interested parties to subscribe to the mailing lists
> above. To subscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> containing the text "subscribe <list name>", for instance "subscribe
> aso-policy".
>
> We look forward to your participation!
>
> Paul Wilson
> for the ASO Address Council.
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Paul Wilson, Director-General, APNIC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> http://www.apnic.net ph/fx +61 7 3367 0490/82
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