Re: [ALSC-Forum] Re: [ga] Substance over rhetoric - a constructive challenge

[Eric Dierker <eric@hi-tek.com>]

all right you have my undying support on this issue.
It is called a Secretariat and is handled by companies and not one individual.
There must be balances in check and it must be void of any censorship
capabilities.
It must have a proven track record and it must be able to demonstrate it's
ability to act
with unbiased integrity.  And it must be voted upon.

Did I miss anything?  Oh yes it must prove technical capability.

Now you have my full support.

Keep on rocking in the free world.
Eric

Esther Dyson wrote:

> hence, my suggestion for a *fulltime* person in charge of precisely such
> (or precisely such that were missing!) coordination efforts!
>
> DO I hear some support here?
>
> Esther
>
> At 04:18 AM 3/19/2002, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> >On 2002-03-19 07:39:16 +0000, Roberto Gaetano wrote:
> >
> >>You might remember that at an ICANN meeting (I think it was
> >>Yokohama, but I may be wrong) I raised the issue of what to do after the
> >>election with the at-large members, and the need to keep the momentum
> >>going, avoiding forgetting about the electorate until time for new
> >>elections. This is unfortunately exactly what happened.
> >
> >In fact, even the simplest "networking" efforts were not supported by
> >ICANN: Back then, I had started the icann-europe mailing list (which is
> >kind of dead by now, but was quite alive back then).  I tried for more
> >than half a year (and with countless e-mails) to convince ICANN staff to
> >add a link to that mailing list's web site to one of their link pages. I
> >wrote to Esther who was the chairman of the board back then, and she
> >agreed that it would be a good idea, and told staff.
> >
> >The person in charge of the elections back then (sorry, I forgot the name)
> >even told me she was working on an FAQ on that. The last thing I heard
> >(several months after the exchange of e-mails with Esther) was that the
> >FAQ couldn't be put online because there was nothing on the Asian and
> >African regions so far (or something like that), and it could only be put
> >online in its entirety.
> >
> >No such FAQ was ever put up, to the best of my knowledge.  Now, guess what
> >kind of message that kind of behaviour sent.
> >
> >--
> >Thomas Roessler                          http://log.does-not-exist.org/
>
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