Gordon,
One does not have to be 100 percent in agreement with everything in order to
stay involved in something. I think I can do more for the little guy (and
the Net in general) from inside ICANN than from outside. If that changed, I
would resign. (Yes, I have in another case resigned from a board where I
disagreed fundamentally with a decision it made.) I will not resign in a
snit every time I do not get my way. I make trade-offs, as we all (most of
us) do.
Esther Dyson
>> From: Gordon Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 8:26 AM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
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>> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: "I represent the little guy" -- Esther Dyson as hypocrite
>>
>>
>> Clausing quotes Esther Dyson as saying regarding her service on
>> ICANN "i do
>> not represent corporate interests; I represent the little guy."
>>
>> <http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/06/biztech/articles/07ican
>> .html>http://w
>> ww.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/06/biztech/articles/07ican.html
>>
>> Esther's contempt for the internet is apparently so great that she thinks
>> she can say one thing to the press and have it uncritically
>> accepted by the
>> business community to which she is selling out the interests of
>> individuals
>> and small business and non profit orgs.
>>
>> She apparently believes that the little guy who reads the net on ICANN
>> won't notice the contrast between her actions and her words. And that if
>> business leaders read it and see her hypocracy they will continue to stay
>> in bed with her anyway. because this is about money, after all,
>> and to hell
>> with personal intergrity. she needs to take a ticket on the cluetrain.
>>
>> Esther could solve the whole problem she has craeted very easily.
>>
>> I call on her to tell the rest of the Board: I am not a hypocrite. i
>> really do believe in the little guy. i was speaking sincerely in my book.
>> Your attitudes have been forcing me to go against my real beliefs. ICANN
>> must be open with open board meetings and open processes. I really do
>> believe this and therefore to demonstrate my fundamental incompatibility
>> with your attitudes, I resign effective immediately.
>>
>> ICANN would then reach a truly defining moment.
>>
>> You can 't have your cake and eat it too Esther - time to choose. The
>> little guy and your own personal integrity or ICANN and big corporate
>> America.
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