Re[2]: [ga] Letter to board.

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

Hello Joanna,

Monday, April 02, 2001, 3:14:57 AM, Joanna Lane wrote:

> WXW wrote:-
> We must be careful to avoid such obvious pitfalls in our individual
> dealings,or do harm to the real legitimacy of the GA and its processes
> that we are trying to build.

> William,
> What is doing more harm to the real legitimacy of the GA and the processes
> we are trying to build is last minute revisions to irrevocable ICANN
> contracts that we were told could not be revised. This warrants a clear
> message of objection to be sent to the decision makers in a timely fashion.
> The letter does not claim to represent your views, only those whose posts
> are quoted, so I fail to see your objection to it. Neither does it claim any
> form of consensus. How could it in such a short time-frame. Everybody knows
> that.

Joanna, I was not criticizing your letter.

I was directing my comment at a particular individual, who tends to
take things too far, and seemed to be on the border of trying to claim
to speak for the GA on the issue.

While I agree with your characterization of the action (reference my
email about the real motivation behind these changes) one does not
answer illegitimate process with illegitimate process, and I wanted to
simply avoid any person, particularly the one I was addressing, from
trying to claim that the view they were presenting was "The GA's View"
or something resembling that.  The GA has a process for that, albeit
one that I think that has some inherent flaws, and while we criticize
the BoD and staff for process violations, we should be careful not to
do the same simply because it would suit our collective views.

That makes us no better than they are.

-- 
Best regards,
 William                            mailto:william@userfriendly.com


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