Re: [ga] Reform in the GA?

[Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 17:09 07/02/2001 -0600, Andy Gardner wrote:
>Are you trying to say there is no politics within the ICANN process?
>
>Tee hee. The one thing ICANN has proved to be best at is advancing
>political careers - Dyson, Roberts, Crispy-Crockett, Simms, Abril, Stubbs,
>Cerf...

I think some of those will be puzzled over your definition of the term 
"advancement".

seriously, anyone who thinks the ICANN process is going to make people feel 
that he is a good candidate for other political office is out of his mind. 
It is more a question of how much of your reputation you are willing to 
sacrifice by trying to make the Right Things happen.

to my mind, the reform that has happened to the GA consists of:

- having a rule to deal with abusive posters that has general agreement
- having a rule to vote on proposals that has general agreement

In fact we have had very little concerted activity towards using those 
procedures to vote on anything; I thought after Marina Del Rey that we 
would see a general call for confirmation of the resolutions passed there 
(those of them that are still relevant), but I have not seen that.
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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, alvestrand@cisco.com
+47 41 44 29 94
Personal email: Harald@Alvestrand.no

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