Re: [ga] Re: [announce] Jonathan Cohen elected for 3 years term at the ICANN Board

[Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 21:02 24/09/2000 -0700, Kent Crispin wrote:
>On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 05:34:41PM -0400, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
> > So if the rules don't make sense, let's see if we can find some rules
> > that do.
>
>Given that "the rules" are based on the following premises:

...


>    2) the purpose of the DNSO is to give constituencies a voice
>
>what is the problem with "the rules"?
>
>Or, do you wish to dispute the premises?

I dispute your premise 2).
I think the purpose of the DNSO is to give the ICANN BoD the best advice 
possible in matters related to the Domain Name System.

If the candidate chosen by the NC is not the one best able to give such 
advice, the process is wrong.

My PERSONAL opinion (as you can tell from my endorsement) is that I think 
Peter de Blanc would have given the board better advice on DNS matters than 
Josh Cohen has been able to. The NC did not agree with me, as shown by 
their selection.

This does not mean that either of us is "right". But the rules gave more 
weight to their opinion than to mine. What we're discussing is whether this 
is how the rules should be.

               Harald

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