Re: [wg-review] GA 2

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 03:03:49PM -0800, Eric Dierker wrote:

[paranoid stuff deleted]

> The GA as it is, is window dressing to show compliance with the charge of
> representing the ICW. 

Once again, there is a profound misunderstanding, coupled with an
automatic assumption of evil intent.  That is not *at all* the intent of
the "General Assembly".

When I went to secondary school (and I believe this was widespread
common practice), we had what were called "Assemblies".  All the
students from all the different grades were called into an auditorium,
and things would be presented.  The various class levels would make
presentations -- for example, if the sophomore class was on the hook, it
was the "sophomore assembly", and the sophomore class was responsible 
for the presentation.  I can't remember for sure, but I think that the 
term "general assembly" was used for the case when the school 
administration called the assembly, and there were presentations or 
entertainment for the school as a whole.

The intended meaning of the term "the General Assembly of the DNSO" is
essentially similar -- it is a gathering of the DNSO as a whole.  The chair 
of the GA presides over the assembly -- the role was primarily intended for 
the case of a face-to-face meeting.

That is, the GA was *never* intended to be a separate body within the
DNSO -- it is a *meeting* of the DNSO as a whole.  (Assemble is a verb, 
an assembly is a whole constructed from a bunch of parts...).

People who were desperate to view the DNSO as a representative body 
immediately ran with a quite different interpretation of the Bylaws, 
however, and we have been saddled with that misinterpretation ever 
since.

> If we fix it and make it really work then the two
> positions related above are in danger.

Your "two positions above" are narrow paranoia that is a disservice to 

> Therefore this may be the most important issue of all, but it can only
> occur through the education, communication and outreach which is late on
> our list.  A review of the June report of the WG on outreach and history
> to this point is right on point, that was basically killed by the same
> technique as this WG almost was, timing making it irrelevant. 

To be honest, I find your constant presumption of evil intent to be 
tedious and offensive. 

-- 
Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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