ICANN's Registrar Community on the ropes: Can the cheese stand alone?
ICANN's Registrar Community on the ropes: Can the cheese stand alone?:
Bret makes some great points about the Registrar community and its lack of involvement over the years with the more serious, and less profitable, issues that ICANN has been faced with since its inceptions.
You can draw a straight line between the ICANN Board's decision to abandon accountability and its decision to give Verisign a perpetual monopoly on .COM.
An ICANN that routinely disregards its obligation to open its Board meetings to public scrutiny, even to post timely minutes, is an ICANN that can never be trusted to make decisions in the public interest.
The same issues that are now biting the Registrar community square in the ass.
First they ghettoized Individual Users, and we did not speak out—
because we did not represent Individual Users;
Then they isolated and ridiculed the activist Board members and critics, and we did not speak out—
because we are not activist Board members or critics;
Then they dissolved the DNSO General Assembly, and we did not speak out—
because we did not participate in the DNSO General Assembly;
Then they antagonized the Country Code Managers, who resisted fairly well, but we still did not speak out—
because we were not Country Code Managers;
Now they are marginalizing the Registrar community —
…and few are left to speak with us.
…with apologies to Martin Niemöller.