[Netreach-L] Candidates needed for Leadership Positions at ICANN

Wed Mar 10 12:27:55 GMT 2010

Hello Peter,

sorry for not having replied to you earlier about this. I was extremely
busy in the run-up to the ICANN Nairobi Meeting, where I am at the moment.

There are still a couple of days left in the meeting currently taking place.

http://nbo.icann.org

This has a whole section engaging public participation, and each meeting
taking place has someone monitoring the chat room for comments/questions
etc.

And tomorrow Thursday is the public forum, in which I suggest you send
questions etc.

Also, ongoing processes at ICANN require public participation input at:

http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/

So I am surprised that you think that ICANN is not engaging enough
public comment, because this is one of the *key* processes taking place
at ICANN.

I hope you can contribute to the debate still going on until the end of
this week, and beyond. I'll try to respond to the rest of your message
when I return home (and after I get a little sleep :-) )

Kindest regards,

Olivier

Le 03/03/2010 03:01, P. Wingfield-Stratford a écrit :
> To Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond
> From Peter Wingfield-Stratford
> peterws at tobeistodo.demon.co.uk
>
> Ref Participation in ICANN
>
> I have browsed the ICANN Website, followed a Discussion on improving
> participation.
>
> Interesting : I have something to say too.
> Sadly ICANN dont seem to have any mechanism to add debate to a posted
> topic or to an item in a topic. ICANN is a Closed little world.
>
> The ICANN is supposed to be about Communication,
>
> Yet ICANN doesnt seem enabled to empower people to Communicate.
>
> Re On Line Discussion of ICANN busines.
>
> Of Course ICANN needs On-Line Discussion, just see the content of
> debate on this..
>
> ICANN doesnt seem aware of the power of Computer-Mediated
> Conferencing. What is that one might hear back ???
>
> Netreach had several systems that individual members ran on the Dialup
> of those days to give users a debating space that allowed separate
> topics and sub-topics to be added to the stack of content. These were
> examples of Computer-Mediated Conferencing..
>
> NetReachers will recall EIES, which was a real Computer-Mediated
> Conference system, run over the "Internet" out of MIT but only in Text..
>
> I ran MIST in Oxford for 10 years until the hardware was becoming a
> trifle flaky and also the use of Dial-up Conferencing had apparently
> become overtaken by the use of simple E-Mail and the Internet.
>
> My MIST system was a sub-set of the routines developed for EIES, which
> ran on multi-user mainframe computers under UNIX. MIST operated a very
> featured system of real CMC on a single-user PC machine. It had
> incredible flexibility and potential for tailoring the features, also
> an excellent security framework. Users could use Alias, real names or
> keep their stuff anonymous. Conferences had moderators, a structure
> enabling management of debate, participants and the possibility to
> make questionaires and voting. There was a hugely configurable
> Database with searching built-in which gave great versatility and
> security in storing data. All these are things needed if ICANN were
> seeking to enable On-Line debate. I even have a version of MIST that
> operates over the Internet, but single-user only.
>
> MIST was used to connect my Server in Oxford with PC computers in the
> jungle in South America via the INMARSAT Satellite network directly
> from my Barn in Oxford. It was able to be configured quite simply to
> do that. Nowadays such software could be operated readily by Mobile
> phones from anywhere in the globe. People would of course nowadays
> expect software that delivered HTML pages just like the usual systems
> of the Internet and multiple users and security - all the other stuff
> we expect in 2010..
>
> The Communitree Conference system was the first of this family of
> Conferencing software, for Apple. Lynn Hurn ran one for years also
> in Brontlys in Wales.
>
> There were other CMC systems but they fell out of favour because of
> changing standards, demise of Videotext, Service Provider charges and
> restrictions. Windows had a lot to answer for in how the firm cut out
> so many good software innovators.
>
> NetReach had the Prestel Videotext Conference system which ran in
> demonstration conditions on a ship, HMS President on the Thames
> opposite the Law Courts.
>
> It is surely not difficult now to create or to buy-in a pukka
> Computer-Mediated conferencing system having some or all of the
> features required for Debate by ICANN delivered in a modern way via
> the Internet. The problem is only that no-one seems to remember the
> power these systems had and how useful they could be. We have all
> become obsessed by tacky commercial systems of E-Mail stacks which
> seem like discussion, Blogs full of trivia, Social networks and so
> forth. These all lack vital features of a real powerful CMC Conference
> software. Anyone can start chats now, no-one can track what they
> discuss and apart from Wikipedia, does it matter. All the participants
> of such E-Mail stacks live in their little worlds. Thats not real
> debate. The cause of the difficulty is they are not true CMC.
>
> I have all the source code for MIST routines, that is the interactive
> framework of interpreter-language scripts out of which the MIST
> appearance and the Conference structure was created out of the
> underlying MIST interpreter and database delivery system. Nowadays we
> dont need the underlying delivery system as we can re-create the CMC
> directly by software development in an Internet-savvy Programming
> system like Java.
>
> If ICANN wants to do something useful they MUST enable public
> participation at least in their Topic database. They need buttons to
> add comment and an editor or monitor to mediate debate. They need
> someone to issue Press releases onto the Search-engines to publicise
> the debates.
>
> I would happily assist there, but really the issue is ICANN needs a
> proper CMC and to show people how to use it and to use it to have
> debates and involve the feedback from external non-ICANN participants.
>
> NetReachers for Ever !
>
> NB Did you see the debate on how Google et all are driving all
> humankind into a clone-situation of self-feeding interests and
> consumerism on BBC TV late  1st March. ?
>
> In message <4B8ACE15.5060107 at gih.com>, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond
> <ocl at gih.com> writes
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> please distribute this note to your local communities.
>> There's a real number of opportunities there to make a significant
>> difference! Apologies for cross-posting.
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond
>> ICANN Nominating Committee 2010
>>
>> --- cut here ---
>>
>> Call for Candidates for Leadership Positions at ICANN
>>
>> To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into
>> your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so
>> computers know where to find each other. The Internet Corporation for
>> Assigned Named and Numbers, ICANN, coordinates these unique
>> identifiers
>> across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have one global
>> Internet.
>>
>> ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit partnership of people
>> from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable
>> and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the
>> Internet?s unique identifiers.
>>
>> ICANN doesn?t control content on the Internet. It cannot stop spam and
>> it doesn?t deal with access to the Internet. But through its
>> coordination role of the Internet?s naming system, it does have an
>> important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet.
>>
>> More information about ICANN on:
>> http://www.icann.org/en/participate/what-icann-do.html
>>
>> We're looking for candidates!
>>
>> ICANN's Nominating Committee is looking for volunteers to fill several
>> ICANN leadership positions
>> and is accepting applications. The closing date is April 2, 2010.
>>
>> Positions to be filled this year:
>>
>> * Three members of the Board of Directors of ICANN
>> * Two At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) representatives (one each
>> from
>> the European and North American regions)
>> * One member of the Council of the Generic Names Supporting
>> Organization
>> (GNSO)
>> * One member of the Council of the Country-Code Names Supporting
>> Organization (ccNSO)
>>
>> Successful applicants will take their seats at the conclusion of the
>> 2010 AGM, (5-10 December, Latin America.)
>>
>> For information on how to apply or to recommend someone, see
>> < http://nomcom.icann.org/ >
>>
>> If you have any enquiry, please do not hesitate to email
>> nomcom2010 at icann.org
>>
>> -- 
>> Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
>> http://www.gih.com/ocl.html
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Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
http://www.gih.com/ocl.html