Re: [ga] Particular People

[William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>]

I told you people he was doing this in order to try and make a point
on his own agenda, much like everything he has done since becoming
"chair"

I say we run our own election along the lines Danny indicated, as a
message of "no faith" in his "leadership" and notify the names council
that he does not represent the consensus of the GA.

Friday, Friday, December 14, 2001, 8:26:48 AM, DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:

> Alexander Svensson, in citing the approach advocated by Jonathan Weinberg, 
> argues that this option gives a  majority of the GA the ability to say that 
> it doesn't want "particular people" representing it.  

> For more than the last six months the Names Council has made it clear that 
> they do not want "particular people" (the GA) to participate in open working 
> groups.  They believe that they have the right to decide as a majority that 
> they can discriminate against the membership of this Assembly and to take 
> procedural steps to limit the participation of those undesirables that would 
> otherwise be free to openly participate in the work of the DNSO.   I have 
> steadfastly argued that such an approach disenfranchises our membership and 
> contravenes the spirit of our Bylaws.

> Our Bylaws require that we shall operate consistent with procedures designed 
> to ensure fairness.  Denying "particular people" their right to fully 
> participate in the ICANN process is contrary to our founding principles.

> Accordingly, I will not support the approach advocated by Alex Svensson.

> In the history of our planet we have noted many attempts to deny a voice to 
> "particular people":  women, blacks, homosexuals (most of whom, as activists, 
> were viewed by the majority as kooks, trouble-makers or ranting lunatics).   
> Within democratic institutions, the majority has long believed that it has a 
> right to discriminate against the minority -- but ICANN, as we know, is not a 
> democratic institution, it is a consensus-based organization in which every 
> voice, no matter how shrill or annoying, is guaranteed the opportunity to 
> fair participate.

> Three members of our Assembly have come forward expressing an interest in 
> doing a job that nobody else was willing to do.  I do not wish to deny them 
> that opportunity just because a majority that was unwilling to do that job 
> thinks that it has a right to discriminate against them.

> I extend to the Assembly the opportunity to discuss and debate this matter 
> further.  I will notify the Secretariat of a final decision on Monday.






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