[governance] USG on ICANN - no movement here

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Bill and all,

  I am sorry that this thread has gone on this long, and yes, again
sorry that I feel compelled to extend it a bit further, but I don't
recall Parminder picking any fight or labeling anyone anything.
He made a simple comparison, nothing more.  So please
lets all try to argue sensably and tone down the insults however
camoflaged they may be or seem.

William Drake wrote:

> Parminder,
>
> On 8/9/08 9:41 AM, "Parminder" <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>
>
>      Is it Bill that you choose the people you pounce on
>      carefully, or else you
>      choose the political positions you pounce on carefully... it
>      has to one, so
>      let me know which is it.
>
> Neither, of course, but thanks for the usual rhetorical games. As I
> and others have noted before, it’s just not appropriate for the
> coordinator of the caucus to be belligerently picking fights and
> calling people loaded names.  Adam didn’t do it, Jeanette didn’t do
> it, Avri didn’t do it, so why do you have to?  The reasons not to are
> obvious, it does the process no good at all. We’ve had this discussion
> before to no effect so presumably such objections mean nothing to
> you.  That’s your choice, disagreeing with it is mine.
>
> On an unrelated note, I have in the past objected on the list to
> Milton’s penchant for insulting verbiage, with equally zero effect.
> But as he’s not the coordinator and complaints about it from others
> are frequent enough, I don’t feel the need to chime in on each
> occasion (although I did send him a private note about his exchange
> with Rui).  I don’t complain about most other rude messages either,
> I’m not the school hall monitor.  I just thought the coordinator
> labeling someone a neoimperialist based on a misrepresentation of his
> comment was especially egregious.
>
> Let’s please not waste any more time on this, nobody wants to read
> this and we’re not going to persuade each other.
>
> BD
>
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