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Re: [ga] Karl's latest
Isn't this thread akin to debating the merits of Iraq's warfare with
Saddam Hussein's brother? Why bother?
Tuesday, July 9, 2002, 8:02:06 AM, James Love <james.love@cptech.org> wrote:
JL> Joe, is it now cool to be "anti-democratic" at ICANN? And if so, does
JL> it make sense to have so much power centralized in a single organization?
JL> Jamie
JL> Joe Sims wrote:
>> Karl is part of the old ICANN -- an organization that was as much a
>> magnet for every person with grandiose ideas about global democracy as
>> it was a serious working body. That old ICANN is gone -- and is being
>> replaced with an organization that still adheres to the core values of
>> openness and transparency, of broad public input and participation, and
>> of making policy by consensus whenever possible, but does so with the
>> knowledge that it still has to all work. For people like Karl, the new
>> ICANN may not have quite the magnetic attraction of the old, but that is
>> not a bad thing. It should help get the decisions that must be made
>> done in a timely and effective way. And that will be a good thing.
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