[governance] The New Class: Civil Society Professionals?

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

wcurrie at apc.org [23/05/08 21:05 +0000]:
> doubt intends them to be. And when they are backed up by some members of
> this caucus who carry a flag for ICANN, then the remarks begin to be part
> of ICANN's negative PR machine - like political candidates putting out

Willie, whoever gave you the idea that I, for example, or maybe McTim, are
carrying flags for ICANN?  Or that this is all part of an elaborate swift
boat operation?  Not that "the other side" (aka the liberal all the way to
radical liberal left, like moveon.org) have clean hands on that sort of
thing, but I digress..

Please dont insult your intelligence, and ours, by mistaking deep
frustration with this process, and with its being virtually hijacked, with
a swift boat campaign.  He seems to be in the position of the prophet
Jeremiah here, making these dire predictions that you're not getting the
meaning of.

If you have read previous posts on his blog, you would know that this is in
no way different from the views he normally holds, and frankly expresses.

>If I were in charge of ICANN or ISOC's public relations department, I
>would have a serious concern about these two issues: that representatives
>of the internet technical community on the MAG are perceived to be
>gatekeepers in their own interest to the detriment of the IGF mandate on
>open policy dialogue  and that someone like Veni is operating a 'swift
>boat' campaign apparently with the support of senior individuals in the
>internet technical community.

And if I were in charge of ICANN or ISOC's PR (and I know enough people
from the technical community who have previously served in senior roles in
ISOC), I would react with shock to see that what is ALSO a bitter criticism
of icann is being interpreted as a swiftboating campaign somehow engineered
by ICANN/ISOC PR

Oh, and I applaud Veni here.

	suresh
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