[governance] Re: The New Class: Civil Society Professionals?

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 09:05:14PM +0000,
 wcurrie at apc.org <wcurrie at apc.org> wrote 
 a message of 10 lines which said:

> Similarly the crude, broad brush stroke attacks on civil society
> participation in IG that Veni makes are unfortunate because they
> also reflect badly on the organisations like ICANN and ISOC that
> Veni purports to speak for. 

You can say one thing for Veni Markovski: he is faithful and
predictable. He was an obnoxious pitbull when working for ICANN and he
continues to do so afterwards.

> that someone like Veni is operating a 'swift boat' campaign
> apparently with the support of senior individuals in the internet
> technical community.

Be careful, there is no such thing as "the Internet technical
community". Internet technicians (the sort of people you can find at
RIPE, AFNOG, NANOG, IETF, W3C, in many places but ICANN) are as
divided as the rest of the Internet users, as different in political
opinions, and they certainly are not a group or a community.
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