I cannot help but observe:
A simple rule of thumb with which to read the enclosed message is;
If you want top know what your opponent is doing,
listen carefully to what he says (in public) about what you are doing;-)...
The enclosed message tells us very clearly what ICANN is actually doing.
Enjoy the translation;-)...\Stef
PS: Yes, spinning the truth into falsity is a fascinating game...\S
At 7:38 PM -0700 8/1/02, Dave Crocker wrote:
At 06:46 PM 8/1/2002 -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
these are details of yet another cat fight into which icann has
wandered in its ever-unsatisfied desire for pool-pah.
Randy, are any of the other players in this bit of opera ever
responsible for creating the problems? Does it matter that such
folk have no interest in serious discussion and compromise?
Does it matter that we get assertions of fact that are proved wrong,
are then re-asserted and again proven to be wrong, only to THEN have
someone switch the topic and start blaming ICANN for pool-pah,
whatever the heck it is?
In other words, does it matter that the only real public activity
that folks participate in with ICANN is to attack it. Sort of like
you seem inclined to do this week.
Do personnel matters matter? Should ICANN worry about protecting
them? (And, no, your glib reference to the them is not enough,
Randy. ICANN is faced with a Board member who is consistently and
wholly rogue. That creates a rather significant challenge, unless
ICANN chooses to act only after Karl causes whatever damage he can.)
Do contractual matters matter? Will living in a pure fishbowl
affect contracts? (Hint: The answer is yes.)
Given that nearly all the folks dealing with ICANN seem inclined
either towards hyper-politics or hyper-criticism, what are the
chances that 100% transparency will cripple what little is left of
ICANN's ability to get any work done at all. (Hint: The answer is
100%)
Or, perhaps, we all ought to remember that ICANN is supposed to pay
some attention to an activity of critical infrastructure and ought
to be allowed an occasional ability to focus on such matters.
And since you seem to be fond of citing Jon's method of managing
that infrastructure, perhaps you will take note that he balanced
community discussion with private discussion. He did not conduct
all of that oversight in a fishbowl.
d/
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