Re: [ga] Message from the Chair - List Rules

[Dan Steinberg <dstein@travel-net.com>]

I guess thats my cue to echo Karl's sentiments and leave as well (just
as soon as I can find where I filed the unsubscribe instruction and
after I go for an afternoon ski since I dont think receiving a few
more messages will kill me)

with regrets,

Dan

Karl Auerbach wrote:
> 
> > The purpose of this note is to provide more details and finalize the
> > application of the rules for the monitoring of this mailing list (see
> > http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc03/msg00447.html), adopted last
> > week (see http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc03/msg00743.html).
> 
> Since you chose to impose censorship, I chose to leave this group.
> 
> I refuse to participate in a body who feels that its first task was to
> establish a means to gag those who make some feel uncomfortable.
> 
> I refuse to participate in a body that uses the nuclear weapon of
> prior-censorship instead of helping those who wish to be self-selective
> do so privately.
> 
> Not that I'm leaving a body that has any power - the General Assembly is
> powerless and ignorred by the Names Council of the DNSO.  And the Names
> Council is ignorred by the ICANN board.  And the ICANN board is routinely
> bypassed by ICANN's executive officers.
> 
> As an aside, those so-called "rules" were not adopted by anything that can
> even claim to have a remote resemblance to a fair and open process -
> starting with the vague announcement to the jello-like metrics of
> "consensus".
> 
> Perhaps the GA is best characterized by the phrase in its URL: "Club
> Public".
> 
> The GA is a club with which I no longer chose to be associated.
> 
> In passing I suggest that the General Assembly change its name.  It is
> neither "General" nor an "Assembly".
> 
>                 --karl--

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