I wrote:
+ The question is how do I propose we keep out all
+ the hyenas who have come to feed on the carcass
+ (INTA, ICC, ITAA, WIPO, AIP, Univ. of Dublin,
+ Crispin and Co., etc. etc.)?
+
+ Hate to say this but... take over, shut them out
+ and don't let them back in until the democratic
+ infrastructures and precedents are established.
+ No other way I'm afraid. This kind of coup, unlike
+ their brand, would have enormous popular support.
+ Because we would give the people exactly what they
+ have asked for: cheap, abundant IP addresses and
+ Domain Names, simplification and "grass rootization"
+ of the technical standards, democratic, accountable,
+ representative internet governance...
Dean Robb writes:
> Um...doesn't shutting any group(s) out kinda invalidate the very
> concept of democracy?
My article is clear. Isolating and even disrupting
anti-democratic entities and individuals should be
accomplished in order to establish democratic,
accountable institutions. Once such bodies are
formed eventually the groups we excluded are
admitted from their well deserved exile. Usually
they learned from their mistakes and transform.
The error last time around, in the aftermath of
the IAHC disaster, is that we included Crispin,
Crocker, Shaw and so on into the core of our
deliberations. Which they naturalley derided,
disrupted and, eventually derailed entirely by
manipulating us away from our own agenda...
extended civil discourse leading to consensus
and a final "wrap-up" marathon conferance to
issue the results for public consideration
and, hopefully, widespread support. Pity.
When the next opportunity arises most of our
self-annoited foes should be *outside* the room
and certainly no part of the central process.
Similar to Perry Metzger's banishment those on
Internet Democracy's black list must be cast
from the procedings or we risk repeating the
same patterns over and over ad infinitum...
huge amounts of hard work, good will and debate
squandered when the same f*cking bunch of greedy
monkeys descend on us tearing to pieces whatever
delicate progress we have made in terms of the
sensitive process of consensus building with
their organized mayhem and reactionary fear
mongering. While nothing at all changes. The
truely ironic thing is that this is exactly
what we are accused of by these our alleged
betters... zoot allors! A lesson in the politics
of change.
Respectfully,
Bob Allisat
Free Community Network _ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://fcn.net _ http://fcn.net/allisat
http://robin.fcn.net
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