Re:[wg-review] 3.Constituencies - RTF Report

[Greg Burton <sidna@feedwriter.com>]

At 12:49 PM 1/31/01, Phil King wrote:
>Maybe the main thing I'm trying to get across is that rigidity is the
>fastest way for ICANN to fail, faster than attorney's suits for monopolistic
>practices, or bylaws failures/infractions, or USG pulling back on the
>remaining strings.  But we can't just let ICANN flounder and holler "let's
>set up the after ICANN next group" or "lets vivisect ICANN and give the
>pieces to the Senate, or whoever".

Phil,

<personal>
This certainly reflects my views, as well. It seems to me that one of the 
issues that creates so much friction is the flat-out idealism of ICANN's 
public personna (bottom-up, consensus-based, all Internet stakeholders, 
etc.) and real-world attempts to translate that idealism into concrete 
mechanisms. One of the meta-questions is "How can the idealistic image be 
reconciled with the actual operations of ICANN?" Another one is "How much 
weight do we give to the pragmatic considerations of the moment when trying 
to develop policy and procedures?"

Neither of these questions are trivial, and our personal decisions about 
emphasis and change depend on how we answer them for our own satisfaction.
</personal>


Regards,
Greg

sidna@feedwriter.com

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