Ken: I was the one who did not believe in the selection process of ICANN's
board and who spoke, whenever I could, for membership and election. But I
also recognize that ICANN has to be built. The current board is composed of
people whom I respect. It has the support of the government, conditioned on
changes.
I think that criticism of ICANN is absolutely essential until such time as
it will be structured correctly, and that you and many others are crucial
to this process. But I have not given up hope and especially would not ask
Esther to walk away. The fear, mistrust and disrespect among the various
group interests in this area is blatant and clear. Each of the groups must
gain legitimacy in the eyes of the other. I believe and hope that the US
government will not relinquish control over ICANN until it is satisfied
that its current deficiencies will be eliminated or reduced. If the
executive does not do so, the Congress or other government agencies will.
So, Esther, please stay on.
Tamar
At 09:23 PM 11/23/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Esther --
>
>May I offer a general observation on your IFWP postings?
>Terse retorts to report fragments avoid the larger issues.
>Many would welcome a more meaningful exchange here.
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>Will you address the legitimacy of a governance body that's
>presuming to govern without the consent of the governed?
>There has never been a global vote giving permission
>for ICANN to become our global Internet government.
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>How can you, a freedom advocate, a feminist, remain
>blind to ICANN as the toy of boys who would be kings?
>Are you fooling yourself into thinking your values rule?
>Will generations yet unborn praise or condemn you?
>
>Read your own words about the values needed today.
>http://www.media-visions.com/dyson.html. Good stuff.
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>Walk away, Esther. Be the one who saves the world.
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>-- ken
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>>We are not sending anyone (or if we are, it's news to me, and I should
>>know). Why should we?
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>>Esther Dyson
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>>At 04:40 pm 11/22/1999 +0100, Mark R Measday wrote:
>>>Is is possible to know what representations ICANN has made, or which
>>>observers have been sent by ICANN to the WTO conference in Seattle next
>>>month?
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>>>MM
>>>Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii;
>>> name="measday.vcf"
>>>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>>>Content-Description: Card for Mark R Measday
>>>Content-Disposition: attachment;
>>> filename="measday.vcf"
>>>
>>>Attachment Converted: C:\EUDORA\measda11.vcf
>>>
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>>Esther Dyson Always make new mistakes!
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>>Book: "Release 2.1: A design for living in the digital age"
>>High-Tech Forum in Europe: October 2000, where would you like it?
>>Barcelona, Edinburgh, Istanbul, other?
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