Re: [ga] wecann preparation - News people

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

William,

I am worrying over tangible voting process versus {and it need not be versus} and
a lazy proclamation of consensus.

I have read your syllabus but am in need of a one paragraph explanation of how you
and Joanna split the difference or not.  Please digress and help me.

Eric

"William S. Lovell" wrote:

> Congratulations, Jefsey! We have gone from earlier processes whereby the
> watchword was that the ICANN "rules" on setting up any kind of group
> within the DNSO should be followed; one of these being a showing of
> "consensus" -- a concept the meaning of which was quite unknown to
> ICANN -- to a process whereby the rules are:
>                                    ICANN DOES NOT EXIST.
> As a result of no longer proceeding like a little band of sheep into an array
> of independent thinkers, we now have icann at large.com, wecann.com, and
> who knows what else might surface. We shall have available an array of
> publicly accessible fora, on which we can all express ourselves freely (within
> the bounds of civilized discourse, I should hope), and out of that shall come
> policies and doctrines that cumulatively shall define the nature of the
> internet.
>
> One doctrine has been demonstrated. We "netties" can in fact self-organize
> into groups that can work together towards a goal, and there can be several
> of such groups working relatively independently towards the same goal.  It
> will be interesting to see how the different groups tackle various problems,
> how they "steal" ideas from each other as the friendly competition progresses,
> and whether on some particular topic the groups could interact and come to
> some single conclusion.  We'll have a couple of "town halls" going at once,
> all of which is much more interesting (and fun!) than being shackled by the
> strictures of that slowly petrifying entity that has the five-letter acronym.
>
> Joanna Lane and I have created a "Best Practices" as a mechanism for
> reaching consensus, the nature of which process can be found in the Forum
> section of icannatlarge.com, and you wecann.com folks are welcome to
> peruse it.
>
> Bill
>
> Jefsey Morfin wrote:
>
> > We prepare the http://wecann.com site for next week. We plan a mailing list
> > and archives for News people. So the Authors may keep the press/media
> > updated easily. This list would be some permanent press conference on the
> > ICANN reform matters.
> >
> > Please send me a private mail with the mail of the press people you know
> > and who could be interested. When the site and the list are established we
> > will send them a mail asking if they want to be on this wecann-press list.
> > jfc
> >
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