>Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 00:35:06 -0800 >To: INTERNIC >From: Bill Lovell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Flat, constituencies, or ??? > >Earlier I did a mental exercise on the flat - constituency issue and >wondered how a constituency model could be avoided. Well, there >could be a way. (A bit of Starbucks helps.) >ICANN should be bottom-up, right? Open and all that? That's what >the WP says. >We are trying to provide bottom-up input, but not having much luck. >A way to have a flat organization while also recognizing the needs >of those 10,000 --> 10,000,000 folks who'll never join up, but for >whom (along with us) the internet exists, is to have a Charter. >In that Charter, we would each of us be pledged to advance the >particular purposes yadda, yadda, yadda. In this "Constitutional >Convention" (which improves on another one I know about in >having "Founding Mothers" as well as Founding Fathers!") there >has been a proper emphasis on functional details, but I'm >suggesting that the solution even of those might be helped if >the efforts were informed by a clear statement of for whom we >purport to speak and what it is we hope to accomplish. > >Bill Lovell __________________________________________________ To receive the digest version instead, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To SUBSCRIBE forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNSUBSCRIBE, forward this message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Problems/suggestions regarding this list? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___END____________________________________________
