[governance] rights based approach to the Internet

[Carlos Afonso]

Sorry, way out of line, Suresh & McTim (wow, sounds like a good name for 
a country music duo!).

The debates in this list are free, and there is no clause which says 
coordnators should not participate in the debate. Are we voting on 
something, or so far just debating? Has any of the current coordinators 
proposed that certain positions should be banned from the list? To the 
contrary. Parminder never runs from a debate (great quality, in my 
opinion), and this seems to strongly annoy a few (very few) people in 
this list.

I tend to think that, if this kind of "technical community" cannot 
tolerate political debate (mind you, this is a *civil society* caucus!), 
it would be better off in other lists -- perhaps spending your time in 
writing an RFC on something like, say, haikus? The list rules do not say 
this explicitly, but thou shalt not be prevented from leaving once in...

Amazing, a quibble is forced by some to escalate, and soon you start to 
imagine that a multitude of people in this caucus are about to join in 
this "movement". So much for egos...

Maybe a reverse result of this escalation will be the requirement, in 
order to be in this caucus, for the techies to join a 101 course in 
Theory of The State, another in ... etc

As to being an observer with strong opinions, fascinating oxymoron...

fraternal regards

--c.a.

Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Its not a coup, Milton. And I personally don't care who coordinates this,
> and don't have an ax to grind here - beyond being an external observer.
>  
> My opinion though is that Parminder doesn't seem to be achieving consensus
> here. And perhaps the best way to get consensus might be someone else in
> this role.
> 
> Please see my reply to Meryem for the rest.
> 
> 	srs
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Milton L Mueller [mailto:mueller at syr.edu]
>> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 10:20 PM
>> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Suresh Ramasubramanian
>> Subject: RE: [governance] rights based approach to the Internet
>>
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:suresh at hserus.net]
>>> 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'm not sure whether this was a serious suggestion, but if so it is
>> highly inappropriate for you to try to leverage minor quibbles over a
>> workshop into a coup. Parminder is our elected coordinator and shall
>> remain so until we have another election. If you don't like his
>> performance you can vote against him at that time, if he runs again. Or
>> put yourself up as a candidate.
>>
>> --MM
> 
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