Re: [ga] your comments

[k@widgital.com (Kristy McKee)]

Indeed, having a public election of any type would greatly decrease the 
chances for big business to hand pick our elected directors:  I see your 
point.  It would be a disaster for the ICANN to have to include 
knowledgeable or experienced folks, better to have people so far up the 
corporate butt that they haven't got a clue about new technology or what it 
means to be a decent, fair person.

Good for you Joe.

~k

At 08:14 AM 5/30/2002 -0400, Joe Sims wrote:
> 
>
>  Laying blame is certainly not a productive use of our 
> time,
>  but if we're going to go down that road, I'm more inclined to lay the 
> fault
>  for not getting ICANN 'fully formed' at your 
> doorstep.
> 
>
> 
>
>
>
>Suit yourself.  But you may remember that the Board was set to adopt an
>election plan for 9 At Large Directors in Cairo, which would have called
>for direct election of an 18-member AL council that would then have elected
>9 AL Board members.  The global democrary advocates  killed this, because
>it did not involve direct elections of the Board members themselves.  Go
>back and read the CDT/Common Cause/Carter Center report, explaining why
>this was unacceptable and an outrage to even consider.  Their position
>(unlike that of those who opposed all elections but were willing to live
>with this compromise) was "my way or else," and the fact that lots of other
>people thought their way was unworkable was apparently irrelevant to them,
>because they just knew they were on the side of right, truth and justice.
>As it turns out, this turn of events was fortunate, since we have now seen
>what a mess global on-line elections would be, but do you suppose there are
>any second thoughts by those who let their unwillingness to compromise lead
>them down a path to (from their perspective) total failure?  Just a
>thought.
>
>
>Joe Sims
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