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Re: [wg-review] Re: [ga] ICANN & other Major Corporations
Eric et al.,
About the only thing I can promise at this point is that i
will be posting my draft sometime later tonight, most likely in the wee hours of
the morrow... I'm in meetings all day today, and I've got to prepare my speech
for an evening function tonight... but I will post it before my head settles on
my pillow this eve.
Sotiris.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 3:04
PM
Subject: [wg-review] Re: [ga] ICANN &
other Major Corporations
Maybe this should be the whole program for outreach and we just
provide the tools, to every one to accomplish the task. It seems to be
working for churches. Although it could be argued we don't have quite as nice
of a draw. ;-(
Sandy Harris wrote:
Kristy McKee wrote:
>
> Hey, I have a
GREAT IDEA!
>
> Every voting American Netizen could get in
communication with their
> Government Representatives and help them
understand: 1) The Internet,
> 2) The ICANN, 3) The
IETF.
I very much doubt that most Netizens understand the net in any depth.
Yes,
we use it and are aware of some of the issues, but that's not the
same. As
for ICANN and the IETF, I suspect many users wouldn't even
recognise the
names. I've met "web designers" who did not recognise
"W3C" or "SSL"!
I think we all agree that the above
technical stuff, is not what we need in Outreach and Education. I do not
intend to suggest that is what is being suggested here, I only make this
comment to be sure, please correct me if I am wrong.
So to some extent, what you suggest would be
the blind leading the blind.
That said, anyone with some understanding should be both monitoring and
lobbying their elected representatives on net.issues. While you're at
it,
do anything you can to inform colleagues, friends,
net.acquaintances, the
media, ...
Not to put
pressure on Sotiris but I sure look forward to his posting - Tonight? as
promised.
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