Some Notes for Brad Re: [Members] [FWD: RE:[governance] US Congress & the JPA]

[Joe Baptista]

Some notes for Brad

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Bradley D. Thornton <Bra...@northtech.us> wrote:

Hi Karl,

um... You say they are notorious for, "...ignoring anything that does not go along with their flow..."

Sounds a lot like the TLDA today.  These days I see a similarity between ICANN and the TLDA.  Both entrenched camps are basically composed of quasi civil servants.  ICANN civil servants have successful backgrounds.  TLDA civil servant don't.  Half our board is either unemployed or unemployable and in at least one case - both.  They mean well - but competence does matter - and we need to upgrade to be taken seriously..
 

I don't have the time right now, but I've learned a few tricks here and there. When you get a list that exudes this level of arrogance (First of all they're legends in their own minds, but that's beside the point),

so are we - whats your point.
 

If three or four people with the unpopular agenda join the list and begin to generate traffic on the topics that are part of their own agenda (Some of us here remember the crispy-crocketts), eventually, those arrogant list members can't help but take the bait and begin to respond, as they just can't keep themselves from wanting to be in a conversation LOL!

No - the TLDA is not ready to exclude itself from the arrogant list of characters.  I agree there.

I suggest Brad - you listen carefully to your membership.

Before the TLDA begins making advances to the community it must get it's house in order and produce a TapRoot.  The deadline for that is coming up on July 15th.  Thats the agreement the board entered into.  The technical aspects of the Taproot and all required policy to effect decisions of the compliance committee and the publication of a recommended list of TLDs.  This must be in place as of July 15th.

I would ask that you focus on that.

Like I said, I don't have the time right now, but I would really love to participate and help get our mission and its significance out there in a discussion on such a list ;)

Some other time Brad.  Right now your under obligation to produce.  And your first deadline is July 15th.  Your next deadline is  October 15th.  Thats when you must have in place the means to represent us at ICANN.

I will now ask the board to please have Karl Peters refrain from representing the TLDA on any list outside the TLDA.  Karl has been involved in some serious legal issues with the TLDA.  He has lost all our records.  He falsified our bylaws.  He broke board confidentiality and went on a libel and slander campaign against me.  It's all in the archives.

This is not the sort of person I want representing my interests as a TLDA member at ICANN or any governance list.  We have a president who can do a better job of it. When it comes to piling on the bull shit in the executive trade - he is the best at that.

I am of course the best at exposing the bullshit.  But of all the TLDA people - Gene Marsh our el presidente - is the least dirty from the HEX incident that has competence in the executive foyer or any TLDA issue.  Gene knows when to keep his mouth shut.

O.K. Karl - please lay of the representation.  May I suggest that all correspondence from you representing the TLDA be first vetted by the president who can then send it one under his name.

Please Karl - try to comply - because it's embarrassing to see this fraud continue.

kindest regards
joe baptista
 

Karl E. Peters wrote:

This post was what I responded on the "governance" list with regard to the US congress' handling of internet matters. This group is notorious for ignoring anything that does not go along with their flow, but I wanted to share my comments here so you could see some of the fun I have on the other lists. The issues dealt with here, however, are the highest calling of a body like the TLDA, and part of what we should be prepared to step up and do. While we sometimes feel we are striving to grow from a little club to a little larger club, there is a real place and need for some group like us. We must decide if we are to step up and be that group...
-Karl
 My post follows:  
   -------- Original Message --------
   Subject: RE:[governance] US Congress & the JPA
   From: "Karl E. Peters" <kpe...@tldainc.org>
   Date: Sun, June 07, 2009 12:39 pm
   To: gover...@lists.cpsr.org, "Kleinwächter,Wolfgang"
   <wolfgang.kl...@medienkomm.uni-halle.de>

   All,  (Please hear me out before you delete!)
       The main responsibility of the US congress as relates to the
   internet is to protect the interests of the American people and
   the resources the nation has deployed. (granted, it often does a
   poor job of that, too!) It is important to note, especially for
   the large number of you outside the USA, that there is absolutely
   nothing to prevent you from establishing your own national or
   regional server systems and forging alliances with others as they
   benefit your people. In such a world, the cultural norms of each
   nation or region can be addressed without concern of conflict with
   the norms of another region. Each can exercise the "net
   neutrality" it finds appropriate in its system and in its region
   and the systems can all hold the Top Level Domains they wish to
   and add some that would be of particular regional interest without
   having to go through long and very expensive hassles with ICANN
   each time. The only things needed to make a multi-system internet
   work is a body to prevent potential naming collisions on what
   would then be a wider and more diverse namespace. The TLDA, Inc.
   (http://www.tldainc.org/) is a non-profit organization set up and
   now maturing so as to be able to provide this TLD research and
   coordination and other related services for the many current and
   future root systems of the world, allowing each to thrive in its
   own way, and yet protecting all of them from potential collisions
   in the event that other systems would want to carry their regional
   TLDs as well as their own.
       Remember the original meaning of "internet", the
   inter-relationship of many networks for the common good. ICANN's
   self-serving policy is a stone around the neck of the American
   people, and MUST seem even worse for other nations and cultures
   wanting to see a vibrant and living internet name space. Why spend
   all your time trying to push the ICANN mountain when you can
   reasonably build your own highways and bi-ways in your own regions
   and tie them together where it is beneficial to your people and
   remain aloof in some other areas if that is best for your system
   and people. Much of the world has complained for years of American
   control over such resources as the internet. Why? Why not build
   their own and make it flourish ans serve their people as they see fit?
       There is no reason for the EU or the Arab League or Latin
   America or China to care what a mess ICANN makes! They should make
   competitive systems, each fitting their region's cultural needs,
   and tie them together where it makes sense by carrying some of the
   same TLDs and perhaps not some others, all by local choice. Why
   not turn the conversation to what everyone else can do to make a
   better internet, and NOT just on how to twist and force ICANN into
   being what it can not understand how to be, a responsive and
   responsible internet body? If each major population that has a
   stake in the internet actually invested in it, they would have
   what they want with FAR less trouble. Then, you would be REAL
   stakeholder and not just an unhappy user group.
       -Karl E. Peters
               
       -------- Original Message --------
       Subject: AW: [governance] US Congress & the JPA
       From: "Kleinwächter,_Wolfgang"
       <wolfgang.kl...@medienkomm.uni-halle.de>
       Date: Sun, June 07, 2009 5:20 am
       To: gover...@lists.cpsr.org

       The whole hearing was an astonishing piece of ignorance by
       some US congress members and some US industry representatives
       with regard to legitimate interests of stakeholders and
       nations around the world. Look into the references of the
       study of the Technology Policy Institute (Lenard/White) -
       which was obviously the main source for members of the
       committee - and you get a clue what you can expect if these
       groups will get decision making power over the future of
       Internet Governance ;-(((. If this happens we will see another
       round of a global ideological battles over the future of the
       Internet with numerous unitended side effects, very
       counterproducitve both to the globnal Internet community and
       the US itself. The global view was totally ouf of the radar of
       the majority of the committee members and some of the
       panelists. What a gulf between the open eyes of the elected
       president and the narrow view of these group of people.

       Wolfgang

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