Re: [ga] Procedure.

["William S. Lovell" <wsl@cerebalaw.com>]

Joanna Lane wrote:
> DPEOJECBMOLLLJOFDNDPOECACGAA.jo-uk@rcn.com">
> > [Snip]
> >     
> > The chair should respect the GA enough to take a public position on
> > this point, as I am not the only one waiting to see the result.
> >       
>
> On this we agree.
>
> Regards,
> Joanna
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>
> >         
>         
On this I vehemently disagree with both Joanna and Mr. Walsh.  I don't care
a rip what the chair's 
position is on anything.  That is not the role of the chair, to take positions.
 The chair is to administer 
the voting procedure (ha, ha -- to the extent the GA has one), and it is
the taking of positions that 
led to the unseemly initial attacks on James Love and his motion. A chair
is supposed to act in a 
neutral, unbiased, and objective manner, and asking what his position is
only exacerbates the 
tendency of almost anyone in this mailing list who ever gets a title of any
kind to act as though they 
 had just been anointed as Emperor of the Internet.  (I need not point out
that that is what ICANN
has done -- that is why it needs to be booted.)
        
Bill Lovell