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Re: Geographical representation (was:Re: [ga] DNSO Secretariat)
On 04:58 17/06/01, Joop Teernstra said:
>Jefsey, I hope you realize that the "geographical representation" need is
>only there to block certain candidates when such would be needed. <g>
I never though of that :-)
>On the net the only boundaries are cultural and this does not always
>co-incide with geographical regions. ANZ is an entity that you just
>created, (it's the trademarked name of a Bank <g>), un esprit .
I suppose you mean "vue de l'esprit" otherwise you would fully agree with
me :-)
>It exists under the name ANZAC
>But culturally AU NZ is still largely Europe. The English part.
>What is it that needs representing on the Board most? Europe? In all it's
>diversity?
>Asia, in all it's diversity? Are they not represented as such already?
>How big a Board is optimal?
>It is good to think about these questions. They are going to be relevant
>to ICANN.
IMHO the real issue is the diversity of the iCANN or DNSO "cultures". This
is why I tried to use an unusual name. I mean: what in the view of the
discuted matters make difference. We need consensus not vites. Uniformity
is the last thing we want.
>We are talking here about DNS stakeholders, regulation and political
>philosophy.
>It's quite a contrast than between AU and NZ.
>.NZ essentially democratic, although higly imperfect, "owned" by a
>society of volunteers.
>.AU is still autocratic.
>(and both's ccTLD interests are represented)
You see from your side. What I see:
- population of small size consistently of the langage as the BoD
- wide area with low population density
- new at network systems and services
- access problems (DoS to the whole NZ, 50% packets retransmission in AU).
Satellite lines.
- sophisticated local population with a need for three local root servers
(2 in Australia, 1 in N2) to get a secure service.
- common law based legal culture
If you consider equivalent criteria round the globe you will observe that
no one less can represent you.
>"Representing ANZ" on the Names Council or on the Board, would have to be
>a hard act when it comes to explaining policies.<g>
We are not here in term of democracy but in term of problem coverage and
operational priorities. This being said the Secretariat of the DNSO should
reflect our outreach policy and should not IMHO be manned by a person of
English mother tongue. Pilar Luques shown us enough the necessity of
translation and we observed the complexity of our vocabulary and its
instability. A multilingual lexical is of the essence: this is the job of
the Secreariat. IMHO only an informed person used to the English Internet
words but of not of English mother tongue and fluent in several other
languages can adequately carry such a task.
We also need to have a Secretariat welcoming new people. We have quite
noone active in here from China, India, Africa, Middle-East,
Eastern-Europe, Japan, South America ... A strong sign to them is our own
Staff to be one of them.....
Jefsey
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