Tweets from Chehade’s keynote in Brussels today
ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade gave a keynote address at a meeting of European stakeholders in Brussels today.
While the meeting is evidently not accessible remotely, some interesting tweets and photos may give a flavor of the event and his remarks. I can’t vouch for the accuracy of the quotes.
#icann ceo giving keynote at Brussels meeting right now. pic.twitter.com/l7idKI5WxR
— Stephane Van Gelder (@stephvg) June 25, 2013
Fadi Chehadé at #ICANN #Brussels briefing: we need to birth new TLDs by the autumn, they are cutting oxygen from ICANN & making ICANN sick
— Caroline Greer (@CarolineGreer) June 25, 2013
Fadi Chehade at #ICANN CENTR meeting: "New #gTLD Registries are our licensees: our clients are registrants".
— StartingDot (@StartingDot) June 25, 2013
#icann Brussels briefing Fadi addressing The european stakeholders pic.twitter.com/Wjei3vlvxU
— Andrea Beccalli (@becktweet) June 25, 2013
F Chehadé: Europe can play a unique, moderating role in #InternetGovernance, standing between extreme national positions #ICANN
— Caroline Greer (@CarolineGreer) June 25, 2013
Fadi Chehadé: "There is no way one government, not even the US, can control the Internet" #ICANN Briefing Brussels
— Ana Olmos (@anaolmos) June 25, 2013
"We are committed to getting #newgtlds out by this fall!" Fadi Chehadé #icann CEO today in Brussels.
— Stephane Van Gelder (@stephvg) June 25, 2013
Fadi Chehadé: "Registrants are #ICANN's customers; not registrars, not registries" –> Focus on #users
— Ana Olmos (@anaolmos) June 25, 2013
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“our clients are registrants”
lol
“our clients are registrants”
Nice to see this admitted. Now if only they would spend more time finding out what registrants want rather than what registries and registrars want.
Sometimes I wonder if ICANN believes that listening to the GAC is the same as listening to the public interest.
They know it’s not the same, but besides a control freak bias inherent to governments, GAC is indeed providing views based on public interest. Expanding representativeness of other ACs and SG/SOs is key for the community to present and defend public interest without such bias.
The GAC listens to commercial special interests and presents those demands as being in the public interest. Tangentially, they probably are, but it’s not quite the same thing.
Now that ICANN has talked the talk of registrants first, let’s ask that they walk the walk. Trust, but verify.
I wouldn’t get too excited. Just last week Atallah was talking about new gTLD applicants as “customers”.
Fadi is CEO, so I am taking him at face value.
See my post at http://internetcommerce.org/Registrants_Rule