GAC comments - and a note on my rhetorical excesses

[Jorge Amodio]

I will not retract anything, I'm sick tired of being politically correct
and silent about certain individuals who claim to be representatives of
Internet users when they are not.

-J


On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Alex Gakuru <gakuru at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don‘t understand Spanish. But if Carlos is expressing displeasure at
> Amodio terming individuals as “characters“ then I strongly urge Amodio to
> consider retracting that narrative. Further claiming “out to milk icann“
> was ironical given how icann so drains the heck out of folk that don‘t have
> any direct or indirect business links or commercial interests in the system.
>
> --sent from a handheld-- excuse brevity and any typos--
> On May 10, 2013 3:49 AM, "Carlos A. Afonso" <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:
>
>> Jorge, este es el documento enviado al Gac sobre el .amazon. Al final vea
>> la lista de los firmantes, que llamas de "characters" (?).
>>
>> [] fraterno
>>
>> --c.a.
>>
>> ------------
>> C. A. Afonso
>>
>> ========
>>
>> Heather Dryden
>> Chairperson
>> ICANN Government Advisory Committee (GAC)
>> via e-mail (Heather.Dryden at ic.gc.ca)
>>
>> Dear Ms Dryden,
>>
>> On behalf of the civil society organizations and networks signed below,
>> this is a letter in support of the request made by governments of the
>> Amazon region that the application for the ".AMAZON" gTLD be withdrawn.
>>
>> The Amazon region constitutes an important part of the territory of
>> Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela,
>> due to its extensive biodiversity, its diverse culture and several idioms,
>> and incalculable natural resources. Granting exclusive rights to this
>> specific gTLD to a private company would prevent the use of this domain for
>> purposes of public interest related to the protection, promotion and
>> awareness raising on issues related to the Amazon biome.
>>
>> It would also hinder the possibility of use of this domain to congregate
>> web pages related to the population inhabiting that geographical region. In
>> addition, this gTLD string requested by "Amazon EU S.a.r.l.” matches part
>> of the name, in English, of the “Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization”,
>> an international organization which coordinates initiatives in the
>> framework of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty, signed in July 1978 by Bolivia,
>> Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela, and
>> expedites the execution of its decisions through its Permanent Secretariat.
>>
>> It should also be noted that the application for the “.AMAZON” gTLD has
>> not received support from the governments of the countries in which the
>> Amazon region is located.
>>
>> February 22, 2013
>>
>> Instituto Nupef, Brazil
>>     http://www.nupef.org.br
>> ISOC Brazil
>>     http://www.isoc.org.br
>> ISOC Peru
>>     http://www.isoc.pe
>> Alfa-Redi, Peru
>>     http://www.alfa-redi.org
>> Fundación REDES, Bolivia
>>     http://www.fundacionredes.org
>> NIC Argentina
>>     http://www.nic.ar
>> Colnodo, Colombia
>>     http://www.colnodo.apc.org
>> Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación Radiofónica (ALER), regional
>>     http://www.aler.org
>> Asociación Paraguaya de Derecho Informático (APADIT), Paraguay
>>     http://www.apadit.org.py
>> Red de Desarrollo Sostenible (RDS), Honduras
>>     http://rds.hn
>> Red de Infodesarrollo de Ecuador
>>     http://www.nuevared.org
>> Fundación Redes y Desarrollo (FUNREDES), Dominican Republic
>>     http://www.funredes.org
>>
>> cc.
>> gacsec at gac.icann.org
>> gac at icann.org
>>
>> ========
>>
>>
>>
>> -------- Mensagem original --------
>> De : Jorge Amodio <jmamodio at GMAIL.COM>
>> Data: 09/05/2013 21h17 (GMT-03:00)
>> Para: NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>> Assunto: Re: [NCSG-Discuss] GAC comments - and a note on my rhetorical
>> excesses
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately some of these characters that claim being representative
>> are actually no such thing and only represent a minuscule group of people
>> with specific interests that got into the ICANN ecosystem to milk the
>> organization.
>>
>> The attachments are not very strong evidence of substantial research and
>> analysis with facts besides geographical information, they are just a bad
>> collection of rhetoric statements.
>>
>> -Jorge
>>
>> On May 9, 2013, at 5:51 PM, Área de Informacion Asociación Internauta <
>> info at INTERNAUTA.ORG.AR> wrote:
>>
>> > I agree with Carlos with respect to. Patagonia and. Amazons.
>> > Several Internet users organizations have opposed the approval of these
>> two NGTLD. I´m sending attached documentation on the subject.
>> > Kind Regards
>> >
>>
>
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