Re: [ga] Karl's latest

[Don Brown <donbrown_l@inetconcepts.net>]

Isn't this thread akin to debating the merits of Iraq's warfare with
Saddam Hussein's brother?  Why bother?


Tuesday, July 9, 2002, 8:02:06 AM, James Love <james.love@cptech.org> wrote:
JL>     Joe, is it now cool to be "anti-democratic" at ICANN?  And if so, does 
JL> it make sense to have so much power centralized in a single organization?

JL>    Jamie

JL> Joe Sims wrote:
>> Karl is part of the old ICANN -- an organization that was as much a 
>> magnet for every person with grandiose ideas about global democracy as 
>> it was a serious working body.  That old ICANN is gone -- and is being 
>> replaced with an organization that still adheres to the core values of 
>> openness and transparency, of broad public input and participation, and 
>> of making policy by consensus whenever possible, but does so with the 
>> knowledge that it still has to all work.  For people like Karl, the new 
>> ICANN may not have quite the magnetic attraction of the old, but that is 
>> not a bad thing.  It should help get the decisions that must be made 
>> done in a timely and effective way.  And that will be a good thing.



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