Re: [wg-review] Education and Outreach (re: Kent's last post)

[Phil King <yofelipe@excite.com>]

Kent,

I didn't jump to reply to the source post, but it is a fact that, as pointed
out by Eric in his post just prior to this one, in my mailbox, the vast
majority don't have a clue about any of these issues.  No more than what
goes on between caller and recipient of a phone call.  They shouldn't have
to.  That's the entire purpose of having all this behind the scenes
structure, working groups, and all that keeps the whole, hard to define
thing, running.  They should be able to run their businesses, IM each other
as individuals, or whatever else they do when their pc or wireless appliance
is online with no thought.  It is for those that own and run the hardware,
backbone, software, and those that may not be in that wider group than I
stated, but have the interest and willingness to invest the time to learn
more and battle out ways for it to become as common and dependable as their
phones and traffic lights.  They are not being dominated, and they don't
want to have to look into these issues.  There is enough cross section,
potentially, in the few thousand becoming involved to ensure MOST interests
will be considered, if not fully addressed all the time, enough of the time
for things to continue to grow.

I may be stating the obvious, but sometimes twice from different sources
helps.  The education and outreach we need to expand is not to the millions
'out there'.  Rather it is to the 'interested' public (for lack of a better
term) and the Governments and appropriate persons in big business, with
particular concentration on those in positions of potential uninformed, yet
well meaning, damage, through improper legislation or wrong top level
business decisions.

Pure democracy, no.  Oligarchy, not either.  Representative voices, yes.  I
even avoided that, apt to be mis-used, misunderstood, term "governance".

Phil King in Butte  MT


On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 17:14:42 -0800, Kent Crispin wrote:

>  On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 07:16:29PM -0500, Sotiropoulos wrote:
>  > Kent et al.,
>  > 
>  > This is what is explicitly stated on ICANN's Web
>  > Site
>  > (http://www.icann.org/general/background.htm):
>  
>  [quote irrelevant to my point deleted]
>  
>  My comments were in the context of the education and outreach necessary
>  to support a hypothetical ICANN that acted as a global Internet
>  Democracy.  ICANN is not, should not, and cannot be a global Internet
>  democracy. 
>  
>  > Obviously, when it comes to "education" and
>  > "outreach" not to mention "support", Kent Crispin
>  > *does not* speak for ICANN in any way shape or
>  > form...
>  
>  Actually, I don't speak for ICANN in any way shape or form on ANY 
>  topic.
>  
>  -- 
>  Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
>  kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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Yo, Felipe (I, Phillip)
Phil King
Butte America
(The Richest Hill On Earth)





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