Fwd: new ICANNWatch website

[Dodin Jean-Daniel <jdanield@dodin.net>]

si vous vous intéressez à l'ICANN, vous pouvez ouvrir un compte en suivant le 
lien ci-dessous (contrairement à ce qu'il semble à lire le texte, les 
nouveaux sont bien venus

si

-vous ne lisez pas l'anglais
-ne comprenez rien à ce mail

ce n'est pas grave, effacez-le et excusez-moi du dérangement

jdd

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Subject: new ICANNWatch website
Date: Mon,  6 Jan 2003 19:13:04 -0500 (EST)
From: announce@icannwatch.orgTo: jdanield@dodin.net
Dear ICANNWatch Subscriber --

When you logged into ICANNWatch, we promised we wouldn't write to you too
often.  And we haven't.  But as the new year brings enormous changes for
ICANN, and also for ICANNWatch, we thought we'd send you an update and
invite to visit our totally revised site at http://www.icannwatch.org.

Changes at ICANNWatch

ICANNWatch is about to undergo a metamorphosis, although some of the
biggest changes will not be evident from our homepage.  Our goals in this
revamp are to remain a prime site for ICANN news and commentary while
enhance opportunities for your interaction with other people around the
world who are concerned about cyberspace governance.

The immediate implication for you is that you will need a new password to
log into the new site.  If there had been a way to seamlessly port each
user's password to the new setup, we would have done so, but it couldn't
be done.  Please take a moment now and visit
http://www.icannwatch.org/users.pl?op=mailpasswdform to re-establish a
password.  Your current username is still valid; all you need to do is
enter it (or the email address you used to sign up), into the form.  A new
temporary password will promptly be emailed to you, and once you log in
with that, you can change to any password you want, and you''ll be good to
go.  We're sorry for the trouble, and we're grateful for your continued
support and interest.

ICANNWatch started as a simple HTML site; then we moved to PHP-Nuke, a
free software package.  PHP-Nuke has many limitations and minor bugs which
became increasingly irritating to both editors and users.  As a result, we
set about finding new software that would (a) provide a nearly transparent
transition (and, in particular preserve links to existing content), (b)
support the same look and feel that you've grown if not to love, then at
least to live with, and (c) give us a set of new features to enhance the
readers' abilities to interact.

We found it, in the form of Slash,[1] open-source, free, software
developed to support Slashdot.org.[2] Thanks to the generous support of
the Markle Foundation[3] and the technical prowess of Openflows,[4] we're
now ready to make the transition.

While you are at the new site, visit the customization page, and set your
preferences.  If you like, for example, you can have headlines delivered
to you regularly by e-mail.  You may also want to have a look at our page
on 'How to Use this Site', http://www.icannwatch.org/site_intro.shtml,
which explains how to use some of the new features of our site.

Changes at ICANN

This is an especially good time to get involved in ICANNWatch.org, because
ICANN itself is undergoing radical changes.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has adopted yet
another set of by-laws -- its most radical change to date.  This new set
abolishes open elections for at-large Board members in order to ensure
that insurgents no longer have even a minority voice in ICANN's affairs.
To further ice the case, the toothless but vocal General Assembly is also
abolished.  Under the new rules, the existing majority on the Board -- the
one that STILL includes Board squatters who originally promised they would
resign two years ago -- has the power to control the identity of the
majority of its successors, entrenching the capture of ICANN.

Another major change is due soon, as ICANN's CEO is retiring.  It would be
naive to have too great hopes for his as-yet-unnamed successor, especially
if the rest of the staff stays in place, but a new face at least opens the
door to a fresh start.

Perhaps the most cheerful recent news is that ICANN is at last returning
to the question of creating new gTLDs.  ICANN CEO Stuart Lynn's proposal
for new TLDs, arbitrarily limited to three and to "sponsored" TLDs only,
did not fare that well at the recent ICANN meeting: the comments were
against it and the Board eliminated the number "3" in favor of a "limited
number".  While this still prejudges the question, any movement at all
raises hopes for a genuinely open discussion as to how many new TLDs we
should have, and what sort.  Sadly, this discussion remains innocent of
any hard research as to how many TLDs are safe -- expert opinion tends to
say "lots" but ICANN has avoided studying the question for fear it might
undermine its strategy of keeping new TLDs to a minimum.

See You at ICANNWatch.org

Regards,

The ICANN Watch editorial team

     [1] http://slashcode.com/
     [2] http://slashdot.org/
     [3] http://www.markle.org/
     [4] http://openflows.org/

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