[governance] rights based approach to the Internet

[Carlos Afonso]

Let me see if I understand -- two members of the self-attributed
"technical community" (who by their definition would be curiously
detached from the real world of business or government or civil society
-- they are just "technical") are trying to depose Parm from his
coordinator role on political grounds?? Or for just "writing too much"??
Where are we going to here??

--c.a.

McTim wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
> <suresh at hserus.net> wrote:
>> McTim [14/04/08 16:51 +0300]:
>>
>>
>>> This is not even a bad caricature of what I have been expounding, it's
>>> a plain falsehood.
>>>
>>> I DO tell you to trim your mails, but you never do.
>>>
>>> As Bill said, not interested in spending time on conversations not
>>> conducted in good faith.
>>>
>>  I dont know about bad faith but there is a definite communication gap here,
>>  and it is perhaps compounded by Parminder not being very aware of technical
>>  PDP issues.
>>
>>  I would suggest that - entirely in the interest of consensus and meaning no
>>  disrespect to his CS credentials, or his excellent work in IT For Change,
>>  he recuse himself from his role as coordinator, and coordination be taken
>>  over by Bill Drake, Adam, Meryem, Jeanette Hoffman or some others on the
>>  list.
> 
> I support this idea.
> http://www.igcaucus.org/IGC-charter_final-061014.html says:
> 
> Duties of Coordinators
> 
> The first and most important duty of the coordinator(s) is to
> facilitate the discussions and enable the members of the caucus to
> reach consensus whenever possible.
> 
> IMHO, discussions aren't being so much facilitated, as much as they
> are being directed by  the coordinator's political philosophy, which
> doesn't tolerate reality (or realpolitik).
> 

-- 

Carlos A. Afonso
direção colegiada, Rits (Rede de Informações para o Terceiro Setor)
conselheiro, CGI.br (Comitê Gestor da Internet no Brasil)
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