RE: [ga] Re: 'constituency' and 'GNSO'

[Eric Dierker <eric@hi-tek.com>]

We are right back to the old catch 22.  Participate and lend legitamacy or 
abstain and let the train over you.
I do not know the answer.  But GNSO elections would begin a process that is 
lacking.
e

> Good reply Sotiris, but you do not and cannot determine ICANN's world
> and as you well know, it controls not only who plays in its sandbox,
> but how. That means you would be luring the innocents into a world
> where they expend all their energy on an effort that can never reach
> fruition, which is exactly what happened to the rest of us. Worse, you
> are playing into ICANN's need to put those innocents on display, and
> use them to bolster its own credibility, which as it stands, is highly
> questionable.
> 
> Joanna
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org]On Behalf Of Sotiris
>> Sotiropoulos
>> Sent: 14 June 2003 20:22
>> To: Jim Fleming
>> Cc: Joanna Lane; ga@dnso.org
>> Subject: [ga] Re: "constituency" and "GNSO"
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Jim Fleming wrote:
>>
>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: "Sotiris Sotiropoulos" <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>
>> >To: "Joanna Lane" <jo-uk@rcn.com>
>> >
>> >
>> >>Who can still say that domain name registrants do not need a
>> >>Constituency of their own in the GNSO?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >====================================
>> >
>> >With all due respect, when you use terms like "constituency" and
>> "GNSO" you are buying into a structure
>> >that is pre-determined to be biased **against** the "domain name
>> registrants".
>> >
>>
>> I don't believe in a determinist world.  I believe we live in the
>> world we make.
>>
>> >That just helps to perpetuate "the Big Lie Society", which
>> un-educated netizens have no idea they are endorsing.
>> >
>>
>> The more who take notice, the more that will inevitably be led to your
>> conclusions if things are as you say.  Would you have a problem with
>> that?
>>
>>
>> >
>> >Why would that be good for domain name registrants ?
>> >
>>
>> More of them might come forward and get to know each other.  I think
>> getting to know people is a good thing.  Especially when common
>> interests are involved.  Don't you?
>>
>> --Sotiris Sotiropoulos
>>
>>
>>
>>
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