Comments on: What do you think?

By: Olakorede Adeleye

Olakorede Adeleye — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:47:37 +0000

Hi, you guys are doing a wonderful job and i will like to be a memeber. Who is the Africa/Nigeria ICANN’s regional manager?

By: Phil Decker

Phil Decker — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:23:31 +0000

I can’t understand why the website isn’t available in german, the biggest ccTLD worldwide….

By: Kieren McCarthy

Kieren McCarthy — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:27:17 +0000

In what way, precisely?

Kieren

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:18:12 +0000

The fact moniker.com is still allowed to operate under your certification proves you are a faulty organization.

By: Kieren McCarthy

Kieren McCarthy — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:43:59 +0000

Because we haven’t installed a machine translation yet (I am experimenting on my persona blog to see if it is useful), and because ICANN has still to produce a solid translation system, but it is working on it.

There are some posts specifically covering Spanish issues however, and you can find them at: http://blog.icann.org/?cat=14

Kieren

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:14:35 +0000

porque no se puede ver la web en español?
WHAY CAN I`SEE THE WEB PAGE IN SPANISH???

By: Kieren McCarthy

Kieren McCarthy — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:35:52 +0000

You mean Word?

Kieren

By: Bill Graham

Bill Graham — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:35:02 +0000

The new site is a huge improvement. One thing continues to irk (at the moment — I am sure there are more), which is the inability to download some of the content as a standard word processor file. When I am trying to work with a document like the response to the OWT report, it would be really helpful to be able to download it in a convenient form.

By: Edward Hasbrouck

Edward Hasbrouck — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:09:16 +0000

Thanks, Kieren. I’ve followed up the unanswered questions by e-mail, as you requested.

By: Kieren McCarthy

Kieren McCarthy — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:47:09 +0000

Hey Ed,

I wish you’d emailed me personally because now I have to answer in a more formal capacity.

Alot of the stuff you mention was in the One World Trust report which is, hang on, here – http://www.icann.org/transparency/owt-report-final-2007.pdf.

Now that is in public comment stage – go to http://forum.icann.org/lists/transparency-2007 – which I shall add on my list on items currently under public comment.

From there I am assuming it will either be up to staff or a constituency to piece together what everyone has said and put it to the Board to discuss and decide what it is going to do.

So, bearing in mind that process is going on, I’m not sure I should stick in any personal comments about what I think because it’s not my place to.

What I will say is that I have read the whole report (which I think is very good) and I have paid particularly attention to the areas that fit within my job.

You ponder if it is my job to be “putting those procedures in place and ensuring compliance” – I would very much doubt it. There are plenty of very good policy people and there is a specific compliance officer. Besides which I don’t have experience or the time.

What is my job? I think I am defining it as I go along to be honest. I’ll tell you my philosophy: more and better input from more people and then make sure it is listened to.

Along the way I am trying to put in place systems that make everyone’s lives easier.

I will say one thing along these lines which you also raise in your response: I don’t like the forums. I don’t think they work. And I think they end up wasting alot of people’s talents needlessly.

I consider this my job because I could have one million people get involved in ICANN but if that becomes one million messages added to an obscure webpage that few people ever read, then it would all be a waste of time. And it would infuriate one million people – which is never a good idea.

Anyway, I hope that answers at least some of your questions. Keep ‘em coming.

Kieren