Re: [ga] Extension of the Interim Board Directors

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Alf and all remaining assembly members,

  I am sorry to disagree with you in part here Alf.  But stakeholders should
not give up their position as owners of the DNS and the Internet itself.

Alf Hansen wrote:

> Marc,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org]On Behalf Of Marc
> > Schneiders
> > Sent: 7. november 2000 10:33
> > To: Alf Hansen
> > Cc: Sandy Harris; ga@dnso.org
> > Subject: RE: [ga] Extension of the Interim Board Directors
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, at 09:22 [=GMT+0100], Alf Hansen wrote:
> >
> > > I think it is a waste of time for the DNSO GA to decide
> > anything about the
> > > composition of the Board. The DNSO should give advice to the Board about
> > > DNSO matters. Of course, we can have an opinion about it, but I
> > think other
> > > channels than the DNSO have to be used if the goal is to change the
> > > composition of the Board.
> >
> > Perhaps you have other channels. I have not.
> > Perhaps you can use those other channels? For those of us, who are not
> > 'inside', making a statement is about the only thing. And I wouldn't
> > mind getting it out in the open.
> > I am sure ICANN is also much in favour of that, given its bottom-up
> > approach and transparency.
> >
>
> I have no such channels, either. I just think we should focus on things we
> can do something about and act as a Domain Name Support Organisation, not as
> the Owner of the ICANN company. We can play that we are the owners, but it
> will be a waste of time. Let us make some progress on the issues on item 3
> on the Agenda for LA:
>
>           - Individual Constituency, 10 min
>           - Procedures for GA Chair elections, 10 min
>           - Relationship GA/@Large, 5 min
>           - Multilingual testbed, 5 min
>           - New TLDs,  5 min
>           - DNSO Review, 40 min
>
> As you see, there are very few minutes per item, so we need to cover them on
> line on beforehand.
>
> Just my opinion.
>
> Best regards,
> Alf H
>
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