Kieren<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 26/11/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kieren McCarthy</b> <<a href="mailto:kierenmccarthy@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">With respect to this response and to a
response by Judith Oppenheimer earlier.<br>
You both appear to view ICANN as a
singular organisation whose staff work together to some pre-determined goal. The
problem with this supposition is that it completely ignores the entire raison d'etre
of ICANN: to co-ordinate between different supporting organisations and
advisory committees. </span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br>
I've personally worked with ICANN on more than one occasion and you
will have a hard task proving to me and many others that ICANN is NOT a
"singular organisation whose staff work together to some pre-determined
goal". I witnessed the behinds-the-scenes play-outs, the coordinated
PR, the damage control.<br>
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And when you say ICANN's raison d'etre is to "co-ordinate between
different supporting organisations and advisory committees" perhaps
that is so, but as long as the outcome of such coordination does not go
against ICANN's interests. <br>
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Rui<br>
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