Re: Addition of Joe Sims to Participants Mailing List

["William X. Walsh" <william@tjns.tj>]

ITU appears to not belive in open and transparent processes, preferring
processes taking place behind closed doors, and more responsive to their
special interests.  They would prefer that the term stakeholder be restricted
to those that support the ITU/CORE/PAB agendas, and include only tokens of
other interests to avoid criticisms.

This is no surprise coming from the ITU and Mr Shaw, since public participation
as been the bane of the ITU and the gTLD-MoU processg.  Public participation
revealed the serious flaws with the gTLD-MoU process and I believe led
ultimately to its demise.

So it is not surprise that the ITU and Mr Shaw would advocate a closed process,
since an open process would evidence that a significantly large portion of
stakeholders to not agree with many of the positions and policies advocated by
the ITU and the CORE/PAB special interests.



On 17-Dec-98 Robert Shaw wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Please remove me from these exchanges - I'm not interested.
> 
> It seems that some of you have completely lost perspective on
> what you should be doing.
> 
> You have a choice.
> 
> Have completely open lists and have any possbility of real work
> being done on them destroyed while you're buried in nonsense
> traffic. Examples abound.
> 
> Have some closed lists where you make some judgement calls about 
> who should be on them and do some real serious forward-moving work.
> 
> It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that people like
> ICANN's external counsel can be of assistance and some guidance 
> to you. If some of you can't see that then I don't there is much 
> hope for you.
> 
> Nor that if certain people who for whatever reason would like to see
> you fail in your efforts can be brought into the work and collaborate
> with you then that is a good thing.
> 
> Bob
> -- 
> Robert Shaw <robert.shaw@itu.int>
> Head a.i., IED/Advisor, Global Information Infrastructure
> International Telecommunication Union <http://www.itu.int>
> Place des Nations, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland


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