Ellen and all,
Essentially we [INEGroup] are in agreement with Ellen Rony's comments
here. Good substance always follows good process. A FACT that it
seems Esther Dyson has either forgotten, or is purposefully ignoring,
for reasons that most of us involved in the "Process" understand
oh too well... The ICANN (INitial?) Interim Boards continuos behavior in
respect to a proper measurable consensus based process shall be
their undoing...
Ellen Rony wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/biztech/articles/30ican.html
>
> Internet Body Feels Democracy's Tug
>
> By JERI CLAUSING
>
> [snip]
>
> During a public session that the board held on Wednesday, Esther
> Dyson, an American who is the board's interim chairwoman, responded to
> Icann's critics. "With all due respect," she told the audience, "we are less
> interested in complaints about process" and more interested in "doing real
> work and moving forward."
>
> My comment: With all due respect, Esther, this is a very Machiavellian
> approach for ICANN to take. Your position that the end justifies the means
> goes right into the bit bucket along with your early advice to the Internet
> community to "trust us".
>
> Among the other notable quotes in this NYT article are:
>
> "This is a very difficult world for
> new players to break into," said
> one in attendance, Alan Davidson,
> policy analyst of the Center for
> Democracy and Technology, an
> online civil libertarian group
> based in Washington.
>
> "If this is the constitutional convention for cyberspace," he [Andrew L.
> Shapiro, a senior advisor to the Markle Foundation, a New York-based
> organization that underwrites projects it deems to be in the public
> interest] said, "it's as if they started the talks in Philadelphia without
> half the colonies."
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