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Re: Addition of Joe Sims to Participants Mailing List

Hello Robert Shaw,

Greetings and good cheer, sir.

At 01:26 PM 12/17/98 , 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.

Yes sir, examples abound to cite both cases as being either failures or unmitigated successes. Considering your history and track-record on these matters, I am not surprised by your position. You have just succeeded in measuring out to your reputation.

Your closed-process structure , while more regular and predictible, also fails to create the consensus required for acceptance. An open process, such as the IFWP success, while a bit more chaotic, succeeds wildly in garnering such consensus. The evidence is plentiful and conclusive. While it may be true that some compromised hybrid of these two polar opposites may yield much success, you would not even try them and would rather throw the weight of your opinion towards a polarized view and discount the one you, personally, don't believe in.

>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.

You fail unto this day to grasp the import of these proceedings. The White Paper specifically calls for consensus on ICANN. By implication, it also calls for consensus on the various SO's. It is the measure of the failure of such consensus that the ICANN FAILED to garner the requisite support from the USG and is now in a two-year probationary period. During this time, it is highly likely that, should an organization which does have the consensus support of the various Internet stakeholders appear, that organization may very well push ICANN into the darkness it likes to work in and the USG will recognise the new body rather than the ICANN. In that event, a DNSO, derived by closed-session practices and lacking consensus themselves, will most assuredly pass into the darkness with them.

In short, the closed-process model has not only been shown to be a failure, but is actively disliked by the present delegator of any authority on the Internet, the US Government.

>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.

For myself, and many others in the ORSC, we would like to see ICANN and the DNSO succeed, but only under the proper conditions. There seems to be universal consensus on one thing, if nothing else, the desire for a fair, above-board, and OPEN, process. I have stated this to the ICANN BoD, and the DNSO. Stef has also made similar pleas. It may take a little longer, but the results are well worth the effort.

Your call for a closed process is directly counter to the consensus. I plead with you to re-consider your request and to re-join the consensus.

Happy Holidays.
Sincerely

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