Re[2]: [ga] Re: Board descisions

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

Hello Dave,

Sunday, March 18, 2001, 7:52:09 AM, Dave Crocker wrote:

> At 03:12 AM 3/18/2001, Roberto Gaetano wrote:
>>I do agree with you on the first part, but going further with the 
>>reasonment, I would assume that one person with the experience of Vint 
>>would have found a polite way to make the remark, would he have been 
>>willing to make clear (to Verisign and to the Internet community) that the 
>>future of .org is only determined by ICANN, and is not part of the negotiation.
>>
>>Having not seen that, I may suspect that this *is* indeed part of the deal.

> It isn't.

> I had a discussion with Vint about this, in Melbourne.

> When people go to school to learn to write and express themselves, the 
> focus in on learning to say what you mean.  In a politicized environment 
> like ICANN, the style of public speech needs something entirely 
> different:  Statements need to worry about protecting against what the 
> speaker does NOT mean.

> Think about how bizarre it is that you are willing to believe that 
> something is true simply because Vint's wording was not specific enough to 
> exclude it.

Because of the history of the way things are done inside ICANN, this
is normally the case.

This concern was, and still is today, a valid one.

-- 
Best regards,
 William                            mailto:william@userfriendly.com


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